From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758299AbXGITIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754328AbXGITHz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:07:55 -0400 Received: from ns2.uludag.org.tr ([193.140.100.220]:49280 "EHLO uludag.org.tr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754278AbXGITHy (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:07:54 -0400 From: "=?utf-8?q?S=2E=C3=87a=C4=9Flar?= Onur" Reply-To: caglar@pardus.org.tr Organization: =?utf-8?q?T=C3=9CB=C4=B0TAK_/?= UEKAE To: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: SATA exceptions Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:06:36 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Robert Hancock , LKML , Jeff Garzik , Onur =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BC=C3=A7=C3=BCk?= , =?utf-8?q?=C4=B0smail_D=C3=B6nmez?= References: <200707080035.05718.caglar@pardus.org.tr> <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46928066.7000705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2093047.xOZHTgb59X"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707092206.37456.caglar@pardus.org.tr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart2093047.xOZHTgb59X Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi; 09 Tem 2007 Pts tarihinde, Tejun Heo =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=B1=C5=9Ft=C4= =B1:=20 > > 07 Tem 2007 Cts tarihinde, Robert Hancock =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=B1= =C5=9Ft=C4=B1: > >> It's not the free space on the drive that matters, it's the number of > >> free sectors in the spare sector pool on the drive, which is invisible > >> to software. > >> > >> Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high= =2E. > > > > Ah sorry to misinterpret the content:), its a quiet new piece of hardwa= re > > (at most ~1.5 month old) and "Reallocated_Event_Count" constantly > > increases (currently its increased to 313) and although i'm not 100 > > percent sure these errors only occured with kernels > 2.6.18 (or 2.6.18 > > didn't report these cause according to kern.log these only visible with > > 2.6.22+) > > OS and driver can't really do much about the reallocation event. Some > number of reallocations is okay but if you it going up constantly, you > probably have a dying disk. Hmm its really interesting, then it means 3 piece of ~1.5 month old laptops= =20 dieing for same decease :) or they already somehow defectived (or we are=20 damaging them but it sits on my table happily all that time :P) > > We bought 3 HP Pavillon dv2385ea and one of them only runs with 2.6.18 > > and its smartctl output follows as a reference; > > > > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 010 Pre-fail > > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age > > Hmm... This is pretty high too. Do the counts increase on this machine > too? Yes, seems so (i'm adding Onur and =C4=B0smail to CC as other machines owne= r) and=20 here is the smart logs for this 3 seperate machine, its interesting me and= =20 =C4=B0smail runs 2.6.22 (over 300 reloacations occured for both of us) and= Onur=20 uses 2.6.18 (0 relocation occured for him) [1] http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/SATA/smart.caglar [2] http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/SATA/smart.ismail [3] http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/SATA/smart.onur Cheers =2D-=20 S.=C3=87a=C4=9Flar Onur http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/ Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates and an Apache in hou= se! --nextPart2093047.xOZHTgb59X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGkoc8y7E6i0LKo6YRAt4RAJ9v5h68Nu74czyorFu2HFWR74NxrQCgyIV4 LESifAjZcTkAGv0E57YhJZM= =seIU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2093047.xOZHTgb59X--