Write errors in STM

[Dane Van Steenwyk]

I have some A5239A 18GB Jamaica drives and one of them says it had 3 write errors in the STM information tool. I didn't get any other errors doing the dd command or the STM exercise test and EMS never notified me of any errors. So I guess I was just wondering if the drive is okay with these errors?? I am trying to get rid of these so I need to know if they are okay to sell?? Any help would be much appreciated!!

[Thayanidhi]

Hi,
The disk may be marginal!! You can do a mediainit and followed by dd. Repeat dd multiple times.

Regds
TT

[Andrew Merritt_2 · Accepted solution]

Disks these days are so large that you are bound to get a small number of errors, and the hardware should cope with that. The drives have SMART technology that monitors the state of the device, and if it detects an excessive number of errors you should get an EMS Event 10 from disk_em. (In fact, the errors displayed are returned by the LOG SENSE command, which is retrieving the SMART data.)

If there's no increase in errors when you run the STM Exercise tool, and in general use, then I don't think there's anything to worry about.

Andrew

[Dane Van Steenwyk]

Thanks for the input guys. I didn't think they were BAD since the dd command was completeing successfully. Thanks again