Re:var keeps going readonly 3365

Bill Marcum

I did that several days ago. No improvement. No consistentency to how long it takes after a reboot for it to become read-only either

I have. It's routinely running self-tests. Here's the smartctl -a output. There are a few errors, but I don't know how to decipher what the errors in the error register mean:

smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: Maxtor 6Y160P0 Serial Number: Y42PMZ8E Firmware Version: YAR41BW0 Device is: In smartctl database for details use: -P show ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA-ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0 Local Time is: Fri Apr 15 12:42:03 2005 MDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-buttessment test result: PbuttED

General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test end 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: ( 302) 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. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 72) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTENAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHENFAILED RAWVALUE 3 SpinUpTime 0x0027 204 204 063 Pre-fail Always - 19025 4 StartStopCount 0x0032 253 253 000 Oldage Always - 194 5 ReallocatedSectorCt 0x0033 253 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0 6 ReadChannelMargin 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 SeekErrorRate 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 8 SeekTimePerformance 0x0027 249 242 187 Pre-fail Always - 52948 9 PowerOnMinutes 0x0032 236 236 000 Oldage Always - 587h+11m 10 SpinRetryCount 0x002b 253 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 CalibrationRetryCount 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 PowerCycleCount 0x0032 253 253 000 Oldage Always - 234 192 Power-OffRetractCount 0x0032 253 253 000 Oldage Always - 0 193 LoadCycleCount 0x0032 253 253 000 Oldage Always - 0 194 TemperatureCelsius 0x0032 253 253 000 Oldage Always - 36 195 HardwareECCRecovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 4950 196 ReallocatedEventCount 0x0008 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0 197 CurrentPendingSector 0x0008 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0 198 OfflineUncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0 199 UDMACRCErrorCount 0x0008 198 192 000 Oldage Offline - 8 200 MultiZoneErrorRate 0x000a 252 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 201 SoftReadErrorRate 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 13 202 TAIncreaseCount 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 203 RunOutCancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 0 204 ShockCountWriteOpern 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 205 ShockRateWriteOpern 0x000a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 207 SpinHighCurrent 0x002a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 208 SpinBuzz 0x002a 253 252 000 Oldage Always - 0 209 OfflineSeekPerformnce 0x0024 196 190 000 Oldage Offline - 0 99 UnknownAttribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0 100 UnknownAttribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0 101 UnknownAttribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Oldage Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1 Warning: ATA error count 8 inconsistent with error log pointer 5

ATA Error Count: 8 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) 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 Timestamp = decimal seconds since the previous disk power-on. Note: timestamp "wraps" after 2^32 msec = 49.710 days.

Error 8 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5334 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 34 eb 2f f0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command-FeatureName -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.776 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.712 WRITE DMA EXT 10 00 3f 00 00 00 f0 08 68 plus 18239.68 plus 16 RECALIBRATE OBS-4 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.632 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.584 WRITE DMA EXT

Error 7 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5334 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 34 eb 2f f0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command-FeatureName -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.712 WRITE DMA EXT 10 00 3f 00 00 00 f0 08 68 plus 18239.68 plus 16 RECALIBRATE OBS-4 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.632 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.584 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 ed 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT

Error 6 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5334 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 34 eb 2f f0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command-FeatureName -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.632 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.584 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 ed 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 dd 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 45 5b d8 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT

Error 5 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5334 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 34 eb 2f f0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command-FeatureName -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- 35 00 10 34 eb 2f f0 08 68 plus 18239.584 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 ed 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 dd 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 45 5b d8 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 08 d5 4c a6 f0 08 68 plus 18236.208 WRITE DMA EXT

Error 4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5334 hours When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 10 4b b7 26 f0

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command-FeatureName -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- 35 00 10 4b b7 26 f0 08 68 plus 18235.936 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 4b b7 26 f0 08 68 plus 18235.872 WRITE DMA EXT 10 00 3f 00 00 00 f0 08 68 plus 18235.856 RECALIBRATE OBS-4 35 00 10 4b b7 26 f0 08 68 plus 18235.808 WRITE DMA EXT 35 00 10 4b b7 26 f0 08 68 plus 18235.760 WRITE DMA EXT

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num TestDescription Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBAoffirsterror # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 5345 -

Thanks, ~Jeff