S.M.A.R.T - Predictive Failure Count

There are errors on your disk. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology

The specific errors you mention correlate to mechanical degradation of the drive. You can possibly use this report to obtain a warranty replacement fomr IBM. The drive WILL eventually fail.


From a Seagate doc:

Predictive failures

S.M.A.R.T. signals predictive failures when the drive is performing unacceptably for a period of time. The firmware keeps a running count of the number of times the error rate for each attribute is unacceptable. To accomplish this, a counter is incremented each time the error rate is unacceptable and decremented (not to exceed zero) whenever the error rate is acceptable. If the counter continually increments such that it reaches the predictive threshold, a predictive failure is signaled. This counter is referred to as the Failure

History Counter. There is a separate Failure History Counter for each attribute.

Here's out to locate the faulty disk:

MegaCli -PdLocate -start -physdrv\[E:S] -aA
  • E : Enclosure
  • S : Slot
  • A : Adapter