On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:09 PM, jdow jdow@earthlink.net wrote:
Today, I am getting this message at boot time:
"Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential Hard. Press F1 to continue , F2 to enter setup"
Is there any reason to be worried about?
My computer is about 3 years old.
For each drive on your system, try
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdxwhere x=a,b,c,.... etc
If any indicate poor health, then use "--all" in place of -H
However, yeah, it's probably time to get a really good backup and price a replacement drive.
Thanks, Steve. I am getting the following:
# smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.9.6-200.fc18.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. Failed Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 013 013 036 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 3587
Paul, when disks start throwing that error it's typically "months" or less before it does something unfriendly like failing to spin up. Put a replacement drive high on your list of things to do. Done soon enough a "dd" disk copy may salvage your current installation with minimum headache. Wait very long and you may have grown problems in critical files.
Thanks for your advice, Jdow. i will soon get another disk.
By the way, how can I save my current installation with dd? And how I can restore that onto the new disk?
Paul