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Hey folks,

 

Just precleared an older Seagate 1TB drive. Tried to interpret these numbers, but I'm having trouble making heads or tails of them...

 

<   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   117   099   006    Pre-fail  Always     -       147540226
---
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   108   099   006    Pre-fail  Always     -       16402173
59c59
<   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   060   056   030    Pre-fail  Always     -       231985297980
---
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   060   056   030    Pre-fail  Always     -       236280364147
65,67c65,67
< 189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   099   099   000    Old_age   Always     -       1
< 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   075   053   045    Old_age   Always     -       25 (Lifetime Min/Max 23/25)
< 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   039   019   000    Old_age   Always     ---
> 189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   098   098   000    Old_age   Always     -       2
> 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   075   053   045    Old_age   Always     -       25 (Lifetime Min/Max 23/26)
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   050   019   000    Old_age   Always 

 

Thanks for any advice!

these numbers represent the differences between the SMART report before the pre-clear cycle and after.  The disk could have a parameter that is FAILING before, and equally FAILING after, and if the parameters involved did not change their counts, would not show in the "diff" report.

 

with that in mind, it is highly unlikely, and still be able to clear a drive, but it could happen.  as far as the various numbers, you need to only worry about a few parameters... those representing sectors marked for re-allocation, and those already re-allocated.

Other than those two, unless a parameter shows "FAILED" or "FAILING_NOW" where the "-" on your printout of the "diff" exists, you are OK.   

 

The current "normalized" read error rate is 108, prior to the preclear, it was 117.  The worst ever measured over the lifetime of the drive was "99"  The failure threshold is "006"  If the normalized read error rate goes BELOW "006" then the drive is considered to be failing.    All drives have internal read errors.  They are all designed to re-read on an error.  As long as the normalized error rate is above the threshold, you are fine.  Nobody except the manufacturer knows how to interpret the "raw" values in the right-most column (and they don't tell anybody)

 

The same goes for your "seek error rate"  The threshold is "030"  the current value (both pre and post) is "060" and the worst value ever "056."    the raw values are again only meaningful to the manufacturer.

 

The "high fly writes" seem to have incremented by 1 in the raw value... again, the normalized value of "099" is nowhere near the failure threshold of "000"

 

About the only parameter that has a raw value that is understandable is the temperature.  Apparently, during the pre-clear process the drive reached a new "max" temperature of 26C.

 

Enjoy your new drive... I know the pre-clear script needs to be better in explaining the output, but when I wrote it I figured the difference were most interesting.    Turns out most are not very useful at all unless you detect a rapid trend towards the "normalized" failure threshold.

 

Joe L.

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Based on the previous post, it would sound like this diff is ok then?

 

Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 54c54
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 40394155
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 58c58
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1670756
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 64,66c64,66
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 423
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 050 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/34)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 051 025 000 Old_age Always 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ============================================================================
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 

 

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Based on the previous post, it would sound like this diff is ok then?

 

Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 54c54
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 40394155
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 58c58
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1670756
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 64,66c64,66
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 423
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 050 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/34)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 051 025 000 Old_age Always 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ---
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ============================================================================
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 

 

Exactly.    But you should look at the full smart report to be absolutely certain.  They were logged in your syslog.

 

Enjoy your new disk drive.

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Just for my education. Am I looking for the same things in the full report here or something else?

 

Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device Model: ST31500341AS
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Serial Number: 9VS07SZG
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Firmware Version: SD1B
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Version is: 8
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Local Time is: Sun Feb 14 05:26:19 2010 GMT+5
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Enabled
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: General SMART Values:
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection status: (0x82)^IOffline data collection activity
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas completed without error.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Total time to complete Offline 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: data collection: ^I^I ( 609) seconds.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Short self-test routine 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Extended self-test routine
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Conveyance self-test routine
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x103b)^ISCT Status supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 54
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 19
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 10572
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 037 020 Old_age Always - 107
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 30065229831
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Error Log Version: 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: No Errors Logged
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10553 -
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10456 -
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 2 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Selective self-test flags (0x0):
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 

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Just for my education. Am I looking for the same things in the full report here or something else?

 

Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device Model: ST31500341AS
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Serial Number: 9VS07SZG
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Firmware Version: SD1B
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Version is: 8
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Local Time is: Sun Feb 14 05:26:19 2010 GMT+5
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Enabled
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: General SMART Values:
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection status: (0x82)^IOffline data collection activity
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas completed without error.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Total time to complete Offline 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: data collection: ^I^I ( 609) seconds.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Short self-test routine 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Extended self-test routine
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Conveyance self-test routine
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x103b)^ISCT Status supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 54
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 19
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 10572
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 037 020 Old_age Always - 107
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 30065229831
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39)
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always - 206494492
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Error Log Version: 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: No Errors Logged
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10553 -
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10456 -
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 2 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 0 0 Not_testing
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Selective self-test flags (0x0):
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 
Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 

You would look for failing attributes that were unchanged between the pre and post reports (and would therefore not show in the diff).

  You drive looks fine.

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Silly question...but doesn't diff show me all of the changes so that if it isn't included in the diff it wouldn't have changed or failed?

Yes, a diff would show you all the changes...

 

But let's say the "raw" value of a given did not change (or is blank as with so many attributes), and let's say the CURRENT, WORST, or THRESHOLD did not change.  Let's also say the CURRENT value for that attribute has reached the THRESHOLD. 

 

The "Failing" column for that attribute in the "pre" report would say "FAILING_NOW" and it would "FAILING_NOW" in the "post" report, therefor the line for that attribute would not show in the "diff"

 

The odds of this happening and the disk still be able to be cleared are slim, but it could happen.

 

Joe L.

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Just finished preclar on my third drive and got the results shown below.  Can someone please help me understand what this means?

 

Thank you

 

Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 4:55:40 (84 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 4:23:27 (94 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 10:40:14 (39 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 20:00:29
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Total Elapsed Time 20:00:29
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Disk Start Temperature: 31C
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Current Disk Temperature: -->44<--C, 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 55c55
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 118 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 178703071
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 124958869
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 59c59
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 33935548
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 34046022
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 65,67c65,67
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 5
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 041 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 31 (15 15 31 27)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 055 026 000 Old_age Always 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 7
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 056 041 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 44 (15 15 47 27)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 062 026 000 Old_age Always 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 71,73c71,73
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 109160888798470
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3069302802
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 4199941684
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 269152715541786
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1787972651
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 978331663 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 

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Just finished preclar on my third drive and got the results shown below.  Can someone please help me understand what this means?

 

Thank you

 

Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 4:55:40 (84 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 4:23:27 (94 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 10:40:14 (39 MB/s)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 20:00:29
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Total Elapsed Time 20:00:29
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Disk Start Temperature: 31C
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: == Current Disk Temperature: -->44<--C, 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ==
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 55c55
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 118 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 178703071
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 124958869
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 59c59
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 33935548
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 075 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 34046022
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 65,67c65,67
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 5
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 041 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 31 (15 15 31 27)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 055 026 000 Old_age Always 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 7
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 056 041 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 44 (15 15 47 27)
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 062 026 000 Old_age Always 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 71,73c71,73
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 109160888798470
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3069302802
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: < 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 4199941684
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ---
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 269152715541786
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1787972651
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: > 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 978331663 
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: ============================================================================
Mar 4 06:28:00 Tower preclear_disk-diff[11659]: 

It means your disk is running very hot 44C.  Most people try to keep them below 40C.

 

Other than that, see here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4068.msg36786#msg36786

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I'm a total newbie here and I just precleared a 2TB WDEADS Green Drive.  These are the results I got following the preclear, any insight?  It looks as though I may be missing some info?  I dunno what this means, it's all Swahili to me!

 

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

54c54

<  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  100  253  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

---

>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

63c63

< 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      25

---

> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      26

============================================================================

 

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Just a sanity check please folks - my understanding thus far is that all is good on both drives (the reports were identical - aside from the fact that one drive took 3 hours longer to complete the script. This is the longer of the two). Both drives are WD EARS (2TB) and are both brand new:

 

preclearresults.jpg

 

I think there's some issues with my router - it keeps dropping the wireless connection on a regular basis. Although this script was run via wired-ethernet, this might be signs of a bigger problem....

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The normalized values are set by many manufacturers on a brand new disk to either 253 or 200.  Once the disk has some use, these change to their starting points, usually 100 or 200.  

 

All the lines with changes are just that initial set to the beginning "normalized" values once the disk have been in use for a short time.

 

The only "raw" value that is humanly-understandable in your output is the number of times the disk heads were loaded onto the disk platters.  That incremented by 1.  (and that is expected, since if the disks heads had not moved from the parked position onto the disk platters, it would not have been able to read or write the disk at all.)

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Hello, I began preclearing 4 disks yesterday morning, and earlier today noticed 2 of them had basically "stalled".  I stopped the 2 "stalled" sessions, 1 at 6 hours, the other around 2 hours into the process.  The other 2 completed the script indicating they had not been precleared, both with this error. 

 

===

=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdh

=                      cycle 1 of 1

= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes            DONE

= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE

= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.          DONE

= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4      DONE

= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                        DONE

= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE

= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE

= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning  DONE

= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries            DONE

= Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful.    DONE

= Post-Read in progress: 66% complete.

(  1,327,560,192,000  of  2,000,398,934,016  bytes read )

Disk Temperature: 32C, Elapsed Time:  31:24:45

./preclear_disk.sh: line 552: 1+()%(243201) : syntax error: operand expected (error token is ")%(243201) ")

==============================================================================

== Disk /dev/sdh has NOT been precleared successfully

== skip=50600 count=200 returned instead of 00000 skip=160800 count=200 returned instead of 00000

============================================================================

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

15,25c15,87

< Error SMART Status command failed

< Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

< Register values returned from SMART Status command are:

< ST =0x40

< ERR=0x00

< NS =0x14

< SC =0xa8

< CL =0x88

< CH =0xe0

< SEL=0x40

< A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

---

> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

>

> General SMART Values:

> Offline data collection status:  (0x84)     

Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

> Self-test execution status:(0)     

The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run.

> Total time to complete Offline data collection: (40800) seconds.

> Offline data collection capabilities:  (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new command.

>                                      Offline surface scan supported.

>                                      Self-test supported.

>                                      Conveyance Self-test supported.

>                                      Selective Self-test supported.

> SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)      Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode.

>                                      Supports SMART auto save timer.

> Error logging capability:        (0x01)      Error logging supported.

>                                      General Purpose Logging supported.

> Short self-test routine recommended polling time:      (  2) minutes.

> Extended self-test routine recommended polling time:      ( 255) minutes.

> Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time:      (  5) minutes.

> SCT capabilities:            (0x3031) SCT Status supported.

>                                      SCT Feature Control supported.

>                                      SCT Data Table supported.

>

> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

>  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  154  153  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      9283

>  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      36

>  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

>  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

>  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

>  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

>  12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      34

> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      18

> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      151

> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

>

> SMART Error Log Version: 1

> No Errors Logged

>

> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

> No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

>

>

> SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

>  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

>    1        0        0  Not_testing

>    2        0        0  Not_testing

>    3        0        0  Not_testing

>    4        0        0  Not_testing

>    5        0        0  Not_testing

> Selective self-test flags (0x0):

>  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

> If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

>

========================================================================                                                     

 

After powering down and back up I ran the -t command against both completed disks and show they have successfully been precleared.  Should I run the script again? What about the "partition" /dev/sdh1?  I would appreciate your comments......

 

 

########################################################################

Device Model:    WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1

Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY2741749

Firmware Version: 80.00A80

User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

 

Disk /dev/sdh: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

 

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdh1              63  3907029167  1953514552+  0  Empty

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

########################################################################

============================================================================

==

== DISK /dev/sdh IS PRECLEARED

==

============================================================================

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#

 

 

 

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The partition is created by the pre-cleared process AND it is part of the pre-clear signature.  If you remove it, the disk will not be detected as pre-cleared.

 

You may have run out of RAM running three processes at a time .  Depending on what else you were running it might get to fail as it uses pretty large buffer sizes when reading and writing the disks.

 

In any case, it looks like it stalled in the post-read, and that is why the disk appears as pre-cleared.

 

You can accomplish reading the entire disk (to substitute for the post-read that never finished) by running a "long" test via SMART.

If it encounters sectors it cannot read it will abort without completing 100%.

 

Type

smartctl -t long /dev/sdh

Wait the indicated duration, get a new smart report to see the results of the "long" test by typing

smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh

look for sectors pending re-allocation or re-allocated.  Look for the "long" test completing 100%

 

One more thing, the error you posted is interesting.

The line that failed is this:

skip_b=$(( 1+(`head -c4 /dev/urandom| od -An -tu4`)%($blocks) ))

 

It apparently was evaluated as

1+()%(243201)

(Note the empty parens "()" where it was expecting a number)

 

That seems to indicate the attempt to get a random number failed when invoking

head -c4 /dev/urandom| od -An -tu4

 

Which brings me back to my original statement, that should never fail unless there is a lack of memory and it was killed when invoked, or it was unable to start. 

 

Very interesting indeed.

 

Joe L.

 

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Joe, here are the results from the long SMART tests.  When I built the server I performed a MemTest on the 4GB installed, said no problems.  I may just run 1 session of preclear and see what the results are....

 

 

 

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -t long /dev/sdh

smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

 

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===

Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".

Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.

Testing has begun.

Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete.

Test will complete after Sun May  9 10:05:53 2010

 

Use smartctl -X to abort test.

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh

smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model:    WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1

Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY2741749

Firmware Version: 80.00A80

User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

ATA Version is:  8

ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Local Time is:    Sun May  9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

 

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

 

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity

                                        was completed without error.

                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

Self-test execution status:      ( 244) Self-test routine in progress...

                                        40% of test remaining.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection:                (40800) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities:                    (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new

                                        command.

                                        Offline surface scan supported.

                                        Self-test supported.

                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.

                                        Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

                                        power-saving mode.

                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.

                                        General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (  2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time:        ( 255) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (  5) minutes.

SCT capabilities:              (0x3031) SCT Status supported.

                                        SCT Feature Control supported.

                                        SCT Data Table supported.

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  154  153  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      9283

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      38

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      68

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      36

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      19

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      186

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  124  111  000    Old_age  Always      -      28

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

 

SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged

 

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

 

 

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

    1        0        0  Not_testing

    2        0        0  Not_testing

    3        0        0  Not_testing

    4        0        0  Not_testing

    5        0        0  Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

 

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#

 

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You did not wait until the "long" test was complete... Your report request said:

Testing has begun.

Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete.

Test will complete after Sun May  9 10:05:53 2010

 

and then, when you requested a status report:

 

Self-test execution status:      ( 244) Self-test routine in progress...

                                        40% of test remaining.

 

It is still running...  (and if not, it might need to be requested as

smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/sdh )

adding the "-d ata" to the command.

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Guess I took 255 minutes literally, I ran the report command 2 minutes after the "suggested" completion time.  Ill make sure its finished next time.

 

Testing has begun.

Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete.

Test will complete after Sun May  9 10:05:53 2010

 

root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Local Time is:    Sun May  9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Just want some confirmation that the attached preclear results for 4 different drives are OK (3x 2TB WD EARS w/ jumpers, 1x 1.5TB Seagate 7200 rpm).

 

Everything looked normal to me, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything.

 

I had to view this syslog in Wordpad for some reason.  The formatting is all kinds of messed up when I open it with Notepad.  Weird.

guiri_syslog_-_5-25-2010_-_preclear_3_x_2_TB_+_1_x_1.5_TB.zip

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  • 2 weeks later...

Wow the 2T disks take a while..

 

Disk1

== Disk /dev/sdh has been successfully precleared
==
== Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
==
== Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
== Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 7:41:11 (72 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 9:42:22 (57 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 35:29:32 (15 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Total Time : 52:54:19
==
== Total Elapsed Time 52:54:19
==
== Disk Start Temperature: 33C
==
== Current Disk Temperature: 36C,
==
============================================================================
S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear
note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
58c58
< 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
---
> > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
63c63
< 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 83
---
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 821
============================================================================

 

Disk 2

Date: Sun Jun 13 22:59:32 EDT 2010
============================================================================
==
== Disk /dev/sdb has been successfully precleared
==
== Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
==
== Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
== Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 7:29:39 (74 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 8:24:39 (66 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 35:33:46 (15 MB/s)
== Last Cycle's Total Time : 51:29:23
==
== Total Elapsed Time 51:29:23
==
== Disk Start Temperature: 26C
==
== Current Disk Temperature: 32C,
==
============================================================================
S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear
note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
19,20c19,20
< Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
< was never started.
---
> > Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
> > was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
54c54
< 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
---
> > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
63c63
< 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19
---
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 760
67c67
< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
---
> > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
============================================================================

 

I went from 72MB/s down to 15MB/s for the Post read!  52 hours!!  Granted I was running two disks at once.

I wonder if it would have gone faster if I had more memory.  Or Maybe boosted the cpu speed. 

Right now I have one 1GB and running at 900MHz (under clocked to save power)

 

It also seems like the 2 port syba 1x PCIe sata card is slightly faster than the on board (sdb was on that card).  Maybe because the

rest of the array is on the on board as well.

 

Jim

 

 

 

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