Question about SMART

[Paolo Galtieri]

Running smartctl produces:

smartctl --all -d scsi /dev/sde
smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Device: Seagate  FreeAgent Go     Version: 0142
Serial number:             2GE45ABA
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Jul  9 10:45:54 2011 MST
Device does not support SMART

Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging

Not much help.

A summary of the SMART data:

ID = 5
Reallocated Sector Count
Count of remapped sectors

Normalized 98
Worst 98
Threshold 36
Value 336 sectors

This is the data for the drive I reformatted.

Paolo

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:33:46 -0700,
>  Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives.  These are portable drives
> > that get their power through USB.  Both these drives are about 1 year
> > old.  Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may
> > be going bad.  The reason is too many bad sectors.  One drive is
> > formatted as it originally came, i.e NTFS the other was reformatted as
> > Ext4. I have checked both drives using Seagate's tools (in non
> > destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7.  No
> > problems where reported.  The question is should I really believe what
> > SMART is telling me or is it just  stupid :-)
> >
> > There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might
> > indicate the drive is going bad.
>
> It might help to see the smartctl output.
>
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