Checking the state of a HDD in knoppix

[Taffy Apple]

Hi guys

I'm looking at a laptop for someone and basically the Win install has died, managed to recover it using recovery console then it died again. Plus it does make the occasional funny grinding noise! So I'm guessing the disk is on the way out, its past its sell by date I know that much.

I've recovered data off it previously using knoppix and a share folder on my Win server, but now I'm wondering if there are any tools available under knoppix that'll tell me just how f**ked the disk actually is.

I though about sharing the whole disk on my network and running some win32 stuff remotely, but I'm not quite sure how I'd share the disk under knoppix and then connect to it.

Any suggestions?

[OErjan]

smartmontools, I hae not used it much but you could try reading the manual, type
man smartctl in a console page upp/pagedown to navigate and q to quit.
Also the disk manufacturers often have diagnostic prgrams you can download from their sites

[Taffy Apple]

Ok I've managed that and these are the results. It says its passed.

Oh well, I guess that noise isn't the disk then.

root@0[knoppix]# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hda1
smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: TOSHIBA MK4025GAS
Serial Number: Y3N22218S
Firmware Version: KA100A
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Jan 21 20:12:42 2007 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution 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: ( 189) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x1b) 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.
No 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: ( 37) minutes.

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 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 1186
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2074
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 28
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 4023
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 141 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1547
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 95
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 086 086 000 Old_age Always - 146277
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 52 (Lifetime Min/Max 12/58)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 40
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 109
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 2740
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 218
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 148 (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]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 148 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4020 hours (167 days + 12 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 05 d1 8b 51 e4 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x04518bd1 = 72453073

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 07 d0 8b 51 e4 00 00:12:34.945 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 00 d7 8a 51 e4 00 00:12:23.498 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 f5 e2 89 51 e4 00 00:12:12.803 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 f6 e1 89 51 e4 00 00:12:04.217 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 00 d7 89 51 e4 00 00:11:54.513 READ SECTOR(S)

Error 147 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4020 hours (167 days + 12 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 07 cf 8b 51 e4 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x04518bcf = 72453071

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 00 d7 8a 51 e4 00 00:12:23.498 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 f5 e2 89 51 e4 00 00:12:12.803 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 f6 e1 89 51 e4 00 00:12:04.217 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 00 d7 89 51 e4 00 00:11:54.513 READ SECTOR(S)
10 00 3f 00 00 00 e0 00 00:11:54.493 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]

Error 146 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4020 hours (167 days + 12 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 f5 e1 89 51 e4 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x045189e1 = 72452577

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 f6 e1 89 51 e4 00 00:12:04.217 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 00 d7 89 51 e4 00 00:11:54.513 READ SECTOR(S)
10 00 3f 00 00 00 e0 00 00:11:54.493 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
91 00 3f 3f ff 3f ef 00 00:11:54.493 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 0c 00:00:00.000 [VENDOR SPECIFIC]

Error 145 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4020 hours (167 days + 12 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 f6 e0 89 51 e4 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x045189e0 = 72452576

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 00 d7 89 51 e4 00 00:11:54.513 READ SECTOR(S)
10 00 3f 00 00 00 e0 00 00:11:54.493 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
91 00 3f 3f ff 3f ef 00 00:11:54.493 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 0c 00:00:00.000 [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
c4 00 00 d7 89 51 e4 00 00:11:44.407 READ MULTIPLE

Error 144 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 4015 hours (167 days + 7 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 51 13 0c 08 41 e4 Error: UNC 19 sectors at LBA = 0x0441080c = 71370764

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
c8 00 24 fb 07 41 e4 00 03:18:34.929 READ DMA
c8 00 24 fb 07 41 e4 00 03:18:26.361 READ DMA
c8 00 1c df 07 41 e4 00 03:18:26.361 READ DMA
c8 00 23 bc 07 41 e4 00 03:18:26.349 READ DMA
c8 00 1d 9f 07 41 e4 00 03:18:26.349 READ DMA

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% 4023 -
# 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 70% 4022 -