On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:11 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
to get a full drive status and test results...if you can't make sense of them then post the results here.
Results below.
Looks to be shot I am afraid, however your drive has warranty until this time next year so I'd copy your system over to another drive and get that one sent away on a RMA request.
You can do that online here https://www4.maxtor.com/en/support/service/rma/create/
You may have to go through the braindead Maxtor diagnostic tools thing, but I think that can be done from a boot disk....they used to have a way of posting the SMART errors which bypassed having to run the test....It may also be that the Maxtor utility can do a hard format and fix the problems...but in this case I doubt it.
The logged errors are showing as external interface errors, but the internal self test failed at block 49372246. Usually this means that the drive has so many bad sectors that it cannot remap any more..currently your drive thinks it has remapped 208 sectors.
You'd probably find that if you ran badblocks on it (be very very careful with badblocks some of the options will overwrite all the data in a particularly unrecoverable way) you would find some bad sectors scattered all over it....Check your backups and replace it ASAP is my advice.
I am also pretty sure the "current pending sector offline" being anything other than 0 is a bad thing.
One more thing..for a 7200 RPM drive I would say that 51 degrees is a little on the warm side...Even my music server which is in a really poorly vented NAS box case with no fans other than a sub miniature case fan has a 7200 RPM drive that has never been over about 42C
Whether this has caused the failure (through bad case ventilation) or is a symptom of the failure I am not sure...I would check the temp of the other drive though. If that is equally high then I'd consider a case fan. On a standard ATX case there is sometimes a place for a fan in front of the drive bays..put a fan to suck air in on this position...if there isn't a space there then put in a rear fan (which should be set to blow air out).