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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support]Logs - ideas what this is reporting?
From:       Bruce Allen <ballen () gravity ! phys ! uwm ! edu>
Date:       2004-06-09 20:27:45
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.21.0406091526360.9051-100000 () dirac ! phys ! uwm ! edu
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> But I am getting this in logs from smartd daemon (5 or 6 lines about once
> an hour):
> 
> smartd[514]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute: 201
> Soft_Read_Error_Rate changed from 247 to 246
> 
> The error rate chabges seem to cycle thru' 247 <-> 253.
> 
> What does this mean?  Is the disk dying, although no other warnings are
> given?

This doesn't mean anything bad.  The problems you are having are probably
kernel related, not smartmontools related.  There have been some similar
reports in the past.

Cheers,
	Bruce



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