[Fedora] Re: Failing drive?

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

J.L. Coenders wrote:

>The strange thing I had exactly the same problem as you this morning.
>And now it works perfect again. The diagnosis, also surface scan, works 
>perfect.
>
    I can reboot the machine and everything works fine ... for a while.  
("a while" being anywhere between roughly 30 minutes to weeks at a 
time.)  I just performed a long selftest (through smartctl) again, 
hoping someone might spot something I'm missing somewhere.  Here's the 
test result;


 > smartctl --attributes --log=selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce 
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
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   060    Pre-fail  
Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  
Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   111   111   024    Pre-fail  
Always       -       130 (Average 138)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   
Always       -       52
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  
Always       -       11
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  
Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   020    Pre-fail  
Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   098   098   000    Old_age   
Always       -       19701
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  
Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   
Always       -       52
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   
Always       -       52
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   050    Old_age   
Always       -       52
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   171   171   000    Old_age   
Always       -       32 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/40)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   
Always       -       24
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   
Always       -       0

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%     
19701         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     
19251         -

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