Preclearing WD20EARS Tons of error in syslog, need help please......


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Hi guys....

 

OK so i setup 2 WD20EARS to preclear Tuesday night. 22 hours in, everything seem to be going fine up until the post read stage, I notice while the time lapse on the other disk was changing, the other disk seem to be hanging @22:55:31 no sweat! Stood there watch for about 10 min nothing. OK let me check the syslog  :(:o nothing but errors. looking at the syslog this was the first error Tower kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen As i'm new to all this can't really tell what that means. looking at the syslog it seems it saying something about serial bus failure.

 

Oh forget to mention that i install jumpers on pins 7-8 before i install the drives

 

If some could please help me out here i would really appreciate it

 

Syslog attach

 

 

 

Current setup....

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz

GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 740G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

PQI POWER Series 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800

COOLER MASTER Centurion 590

SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB Flash Drive

syslog-2010-10-27.txt

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To my in inexperienced eye it looks like a HDD failure.  I see this multiple times:

Oct 27 07:18:03 Tower kernel: ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0

I suppose it could be a cabling problem too.  I would still see what someone else thinks that knows more however.

 

I just had a drive die myself.  It passed the preclear step as far as I could tell but a couple of weeks later when I tried to copy data to it I got a lot of relocated sectors, read failures, etc...

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Thanks for your response.....The other drive came out fine......at least to my understanding of the syslog.

Only one thing i'm too sure about is Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail

 

I don't think this is anything to worry about. Looking at syslog there are no "Current_Pending_Sectors" and "Reallocated_Event_Count is 0"

If i'm wrong some can please correct me.

 

Ive also restarted the preclear on the trouble some, drive fingers cross ::)

 

 

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Device Model:    WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Serial Number:    WD-WCAZA0826089

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Firmware Version: 51.0AB51

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ATA Version is:  8

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Local Time is:    Thu Oct 28 04:57:29 2010 EDT

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART support is: Enabled

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: General SMART Values:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Offline data collection status:  (0x84)^IOffline data collection activity

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas suspended by an interrupting command from host.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Self-test execution status:      (  0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Total time to complete Offline

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: data collection: ^I^I (38160) seconds.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Offline data collection

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Error logging capability:        (0x01)^IError logging supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Short self-test routine

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: recommended polling time: ^I (  2) minutes.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Extended self-test routine

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Conveyance self-test routine

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: recommended polling time: ^I (  5) minutes.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SCT capabilities: ^I      (0x3035)^ISCT Status supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  218  165  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      4091

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      14

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      29

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      12

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      10

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      12

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART Error Log Version: 1

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: No Errors Logged

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:    1        0        0  Not_testing

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:    2        0        0  Not_testing

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:    3        0        0  Not_testing

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:    4        0        0  Not_testing

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:    5        0        0  Not_testing

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: Selective self-test flags (0x0):

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-finish[8115]:

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ============================================================================

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Disk /dev/sdc has been successfully precleared

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time  : 8:18:51 (66 MB/s)

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time  : 6:33:05 (84 MB/s)

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 14:23:36 (38 MB/s)

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Last Cycle's Total Time    : 29:16:39

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: == Total Elapsed Time 29:16:39

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ==

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ============================================================================

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: 19,20c19,20

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < Offline data collection status:  (0x80)^IOffline data collection activity

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < ^I^I^I^I^Iwas never started.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ---

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > Offline data collection status:  (0x84)^IOffline data collection activity

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > ^I^I^I^I^Iwas suspended by an interrupting command from host.

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: 54,56c54,56

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  100  253  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  165  165  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      6741

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      11

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ---

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  218  165  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      4091

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      14

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: 58c58

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ---

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: 61,63c61,63

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      9

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      7

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      9

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ---

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      12

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      10

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      12

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ============================================================================

Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: 

Oct 28 05:34:31 Tower kernel: mdcmd (10749): spindown 1

Oct 28 07:22:07 Tower kernel: mdcmd (11395): spindown 2

Oct 28 10:21:39 Tower unmenu[1392]: which: no bwm-ng in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin)

 

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Sorry meant to reply to this.  I would post your syscntl log entries in the preclear_disk results thread(that I see you are having a conversation with someone else with) you might get a response there.  I don't see anything myself but I still don't really trust myself for interpreting them yet.  I've seen JoeL say a raw-read-error-rate is not something to worry about unless there are other problems.  So if that is all you are worried about a check their maybe someone else that is more confident can confirm the report.

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The current values are all well above the thresholds. The power off cycle count should not change. This indicates a power problem. I had a bad power connecter on my new PS. I changed the connector and the problem went away.

 

These numbers should not be changing:

61,63c61,63
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: <  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       7
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: < 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: ---
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: >  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       12
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       10
Oct 28 04:57:29 Tower preclear_disk-diff[8128]: > 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       12 

 

Credit goes to Joe L. for pointing this out to me.

 

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