Samsung SP2514N showing error: is it genuine?

John Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, I've been using smartctl for a while and my drives are all clean 
except one. It shows a single error that I've shown below. I've done 
"-a" so you can see all the info.

Is this a real error or due to some Samsung firmware issue? I have tried 
-F samsung / samsung2 and samsung3 with no effect - the error is still 
there.

I have also run an extended test on the drive and it completed without 
error.

Appreciate any advice.
Thanks,
John

$ sudo smartctl -a -l error /dev/sda
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.14.6-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint P120
Device Model:     SAMSUNG SP2514N
Serial Number:    S08BJ1RY600160
Firmware Version: VF100-33
User Capacity:    250,059,350,016 bytes [250 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 4a
Local Time is:    Thu Jun 19 11:39:15 2014 BST

==> WARNING: May need -F samsung3 enabled; see manual for details.

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:      (   0)    The previous self-test 
routine completed
                     without error or no self-test has ever
                     been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:         ( 4929) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:              (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                     Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                     Suspend Offline collection upon new
                     command.
                     Offline surface scan supported.
                     Self-test supported.
                     No 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:      (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (  82) minutes.

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     0x000f   253   100   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   025    Pre-fail 
Always       -       7360
   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age 
Always       -       2771
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   253   253   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
   8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0025   253   253   015    Pre-fail 
Offline      -       8946
   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       37284
  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   253   253   051    Pre-fail 
Always       -       0
  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012   253   002   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age 
Always       -       1510
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   139   103   000    Old_age 
Always       -       33
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   139   103   000    Old_age 
Always       -       33
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       7716
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   253   253   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   253   253   000    Old_age 
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   253   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   253   100   000    Old_age 
Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 1
     CR = Command Register [HEX]
     FR = Features Register [HEX]
     SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
     SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
     CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
     CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
     DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
     DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
     ER = Error register [HEX]
     ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 30633 hours (1276 days + 9 
hours)
   When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was 
active or idle.

   After command completion occurred, registers were:
   ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
   -- -- -- -- -- -- --
   84 51 04 47 00 00 e0  Error: ICRC, ABRT 4 sectors at LBA = 0x00000047 
= 71

   Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
   CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
   -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
   c8 00 04 47 00 00 e0 00      12:45:51.438  READ DMA
   c8 00 04 3f 00 00 e0 00      12:45:51.438  READ DMA
   c8 00 04 5f 0a 80 e2 00      12:45:51.438  READ DMA
   c8 00 04 bf 09 80 e2 00      12:45:51.438  READ DMA
   c8 00 08 00 00 00 e0 00      12:45:51.438  READ DMA

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining 
LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00% 37282         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00% 37178         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever 
been run
  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.



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