Re: Bad Sectors on a SATA Drive

John:

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, John Haxby wrote:

> Lawrence Houston wrote:
>> Question 2: Is there any way to have RHEL3 complete a Surface Scan while
>>             it is still running in the Networked Multi-User Mode (I am
>>             located 100 Miles away)?  I ask since dropping into Single
>>             User Mode and Remounting in Read-ONLY Mode to run Utilities
>>             from the Command-Line on the Console is NOT something the less
>>             experienced computer users are willing to do on their own!
> You can run badblocks read-only without bringing the system down -- I did it 
> this morning on a disk I was suspicious of that doesn't support SMART. 
> Well, the disk does, but the USB enclosure doesn't so I'm planning to put it 
> in a machine and see what smartctl has to say.   It'll probably say it's not 
> well :-(

Running a SMARTCTL Query reports the Device does NOT support SMART??

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[root]# /usr/sbin/smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.1-11 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA      ST3160023AS      Version: 8.12
Serial number:             5MT0MLQB
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Thu Jan 18 14:20:49 2007 EST
Device does not support SMART [bad value in scsi command]
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The 160 GIG Seagate is accessed via SCSI Emulation (not sure if that is a 
SATA, RHEL3 or DELL "Thing"?), should that affect whether a SATA Disk can 
return SMART Inforation???

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
libata version 1.20 loaded.
PCI(00:1f.2): version 1.05
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 5
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 
88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 312500000 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xFE27
ata2: disabling port
scsi0 : ata_piix
scsi1 : ata_piix
   Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3160023AS       Rev: 8.12
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 312500000 512-byte hdwr sectors (160000 MB)
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NOTE: Only a Single SATA Drive in the System so ATA2 is Disabled...

Lawrence Houston  --  ([email protected])

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