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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:57 am    Post subject: Scary hard drive noises, but no symptom of failure Reply with quote

Hi everybody!

Two weeks ago, I replaced my notebook's harddrive with a new SATA drive from Toshiba. Copying data went painless, I switched drives, rebooted, and all worked fine. However, yesterday, I heard for the second time the most horrible imaginable screeching noise coming from the disk for approximately half a second. Image pushing a knife on a LP spinning at 5000 rpm, to get an impression of it. Any way I can think of this noise being produced inside a hard drive should physically destroy at least parts of the drive.

Now, I am well aware that such things usually indicate a dying drive. However, all seems fine, if I was deaf, I wouldn't have noticed anything, no read errors in dmesg, no suspicious entries in SMART, and a long SMART self test completed without failure (and I am confident it indeed did test, it took several hours, you could hear the usual noises of a drive at work, and it heated up).

The qestion: has anybody had similar experiences, and if, did the drive fail? I have added my SMART output below. The three errors recorded seem to be transfer problems that happened when the drive was in an external USB case to copy over my data and seem to be harmless.

Code:
gondolin ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     TOSHIBA MK1652GSX
Serial Number:    68HVF93DS
Firmware Version: LV010A
User Capacity:    160.041.885.696 bytes
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Sun Dec 14 12:52:56 2008 CET
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:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
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:                 ( 120) 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:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  69) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x0039) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

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     0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   100   100   001    Pre-fail  Always       -       1007
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       171
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       77
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   103   100   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       45
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1165
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       26 (Lifetime Min/Max 16/47)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       3
220 Disk_Shift              0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       36
222 Loaded_Hours            0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       70
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
224 Load_Friction           0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
226 Load-in_Time            0x0026   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       228
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0001   100   100   001    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 3
        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 3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2 hours (0 days + 2 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 01 c1 52 e5 44  Error: ICRC, ABRT 1 sectors at LBA = 0x04e552c1 = 82137793

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  35 03 e0 e2 51 e5 44 00      02:51:07.593  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 e0 e2 51 e5 44 00      02:51:07.420  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 38 a2 51 e5 44 00      02:51:07.418  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 f0 b2 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.414  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 38 72 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.412  WRITE DMA EXT

Error 2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2 hours (0 days + 2 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 01 c1 52 e5 44  Error: ICRC, ABRT 1 sectors at LBA = 0x04e552c1 = 82137793

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  35 03 e0 e2 51 e5 44 00      02:51:07.420  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 38 a2 51 e5 44 00      02:51:07.418  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 f0 b2 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.414  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 38 72 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.412  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 38 72 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.250  WRITE DMA EXT

Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2 hours (0 days + 2 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 01 a9 50 e5 44  Error: ICRC, ABRT 1 sectors at LBA = 0x04e550a9 = 82137257

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  35 03 38 72 50 e5 44 00      02:51:07.250  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 78 ca 4f e5 44 00      02:51:07.247  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 48 7a 4f e5 44 00      02:51:07.245  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 48 2a 4f e5 44 00      02:51:07.243  WRITE DMA EXT
  35 03 28 6a 61 ca 45 00      02:51:07.242  WRITE DMA EXT

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%        74         -
# 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%        29         -
# 3  Extended offline    Aborted by host               10%        26         -
# 4  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%        25         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 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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PostPosted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the drive didn't fail, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did soon.

Make backups often, and cover your ears :P
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