Hi !

I´m getting this messages inside my daily cron update. Anyone knows how i can enable the S.M.A.R.T. on my box ?


"
Using smartcheck config 5.32 for smartctl(5.1)
Checking /dev/sda....S.M.A.R.T does not appear to be enabled for this device.
"

I know that the latest RHEL 3 kernel supports S.M.A.R.T. for SATA drives. That's as much as I know.

What does "smartctl -a /dev/sda" show? I don't think I have come across one that was not enabled already.

My SATA HD's were not SMART enabled, but then up until 3 weeks ago the RHEL 3 kernel did not support SMART on SATA Drives. I haven't updated my kernel yet, to see if that auto enables SMART on SATA.

Well, i not have S.M.A.R.T. suppport because the Kernel. So, here is my problem.

I got the lastest logwatchs with this inside:


ON 13/05

WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
ata1: error=0x40 { Uncorrect...: 2Time(s)
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 2Time(s)

ON 12/05

WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
I/O error: dev 08:03, sect...: 2Time(s)
Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error - auto reallocat...: 2Time(s)
Current sd08:03: sense key Medium Error...: 2Time(s)
ata1: error=0x40 { Uncorrect...: 15Time(s)
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 15Time(s)

So, my question is, this is a HDD hardware failure or something that i can fix with like a "scandisc" for linux ? I see about fsck, but also a los of filesystem complete corrupted because fsck.

If its a hardware failure, i have two HDD on my server, how can i see what disk is the one are failing, the second one i have never used it.

Also i have only SATA drives i think. So i dont know why the report are talking about ata1.

Put in a trouble ticket to have them test it, possibly replace the datacables