Mehul Ved wrote:
Have you run smart[1] tests[2] on it?
Thanks for the links! I have consistent failures on the drive at the same point. I ran four tests (3 short, 1 extended). The last test was after running 'e2fsck -c' on both partitions of the drive. On sdb5 (which was where the fault was occurring) a lot of errors were fixed.
root@mark2:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000b82a1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 63 488392064 244196001 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 189 68967044 34483428 83 Linux /dev/sdb6 68967108 488392064 209712478+ 83 Linux
root@mark2:~# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2700 14364 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 2698 14364 # 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2690 14364 # 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 2690 14364
I am off to get a new drive...
Thanks and regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute