HD turning off due to high temperature?

milosn · 2011-12-04 10:53:25

Hi all,

Ive got new HD for my laptop recently, samsung hn-m500mbb spinpoint, and re-installed arch with /home on LUKS. Ever since the re-install after some time of laptop being powered on, sometimes its few Hs sometimes its a day or so, sometimes while i am using the laptop sometimes while its sitting idle, it appears that the HD just shuts down or some other temporary failure happens. If i try to run any commands or try to shutdown i get IO error or segfaults. There is nothing in the logs apart from this:

Dec 3 17:39:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 64 to 63
Dec 3 18:39:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 63 to 61
Dec 3 19:07:19 t61 d:80 R=... S=2... E=2TS00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2
Dec 3 19:09:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 61 to 62
Dec 3 19:39:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 62 to 64
Dec 3 20:09:59 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 64 to 62
Dec 3 20:39:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 62 to 63
Dec 3 22:09:59 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 63 to 64
Dec 3 22:29:59 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 3 22:49:59 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 3 23:21:01 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 3 23:41:01 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 00:09:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 64 to 63
Dec 4 00:29:58 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 00:39:59 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 63 to 62
Dec 4 00:59:59 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 01:09:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 62 to 60
Dec 4 01:29:58 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 01:39:58 t61 smartd[1104]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 60 to 64
Dec 4 01:59:58 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 02:21:01 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 02:41:01 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 04:49:42 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 05:21:03 t61 -- MARK --
Dec 4 10:11:06 t61 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Dec 4 10:11:06 t61 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Dec 4 10:11:06 t61 kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.1.4-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.6.2 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 29 08:55:45 CET 2011
Dec 4 10:11:06 t61 kernel: [ 0.000000] Command line: initrd=/boot/initramfs-linux.img root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/b4a24f22-4f92-40b8-811c-18c6ac8ceb95 rootfstyp
Dec 4 10:11:06 t61 kernel: [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

Is it possible that the HD is suffering temporary failure because of overheating or something? And if yes, any clues why this might be happening?

Regards
Milos

cybertorture · 2011-12-04 11:19:27

this attribute 194 is vendor specific
for exaxmple :

Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 200 to 206
hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 31°C

milosn · 2011-12-04 11:24:14

Guess its not that then.

Ive run /sbin/hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda on the drive, reading some related posts this could help.

cybertorture · 2011-12-04 23:58:39

My guess is it will not help you
can you see something related to harddrive in "dmesg", also check smartctl -A /dev/sda

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#1 2011-12-04 10:53:25

HD turning off due to high temperature?

#2 2011-12-04 11:19:27

Re: HD turning off due to high temperature?

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Re: HD turning off due to high temperature?

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