Let's just say when I had posted the first smartctl results on the antiX forum, a member there interpreted it for me as a very sus pass. Then having done a short self test, I got a fail at 90%. And all the errors showing went from no errors ever to that number of errors just trying to run a Linux install or Linux on a LiveUSB, and every "freeze" or "reboot" I described earlier made a new error - I checked with a smartctl after. I did also run a memtest included in a Live USB and that cleared.
Here is a copy of the smartctl I had run (on the FreeBSD right now and haven't installed that utility):
smartctl results of demonic pc
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.10.224-antix.1-amd64-smp] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5 (CMR)
Device Model:
Serial Number:
LU WWN Device Id:
Firmware Version: CC43
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Nov 4 15:34:48 2024 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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
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: ( 0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
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.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 103) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x1085) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 063 006 Pre-fail Always - 159264370
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 097 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 2036
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 060 045 Pre-fail Always - 17872583369
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 078 078 000 Old_age Always - 19344
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 2035
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 079 079 000 Old_age Always - 21
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 3 3 3
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 065 055 040 Old_age Always - 35 (Min/Max 34/37)
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2293
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 035 010 000 Old_age Always - 35 (0 10 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 159264370
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 8
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 19305h+49m+21.300s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 60402699034
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 94739844544
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 21 (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 21 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19201 hours (800 days + 1 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 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fffffff = 268435455
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:10.868 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 70 18 10 46 00 00:01:10.867 READ FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 a0 00 00:01:10.867 SET FEATURES [Enable SATA feature]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:01:10.867 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT [OBS-ACS-3]
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:01:10.866 IDENTIFY DEVICE
Error 20 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19201 hours (800 days + 1 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 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fffffff = 268435455
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 00 08 70 18 10 46 00 00:01:08.557 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:08.554 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 00 f0 3c 10 40 00 00:01:08.497 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:07.994 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:07.990 READ FPDMA QUEUED
Error 19 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19201 hours (800 days + 1 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 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fffffff = 268435455
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:05.325 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:05.325 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 10 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:05.318 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 18 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:05.318 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 18 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:01:05.318 READ FPDMA QUEUED
Error 18 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19200 hours (800 days + 0 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 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fffffff = 268435455
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:12:46.691 READ FPDMA QUEUED
ef 10 02 00 00 00 a0 00 00:12:46.691 SET FEATURES [Enable SATA feature]
27 00 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00:12:46.690 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT [OBS-ACS-3]
ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:12:46.690 IDENTIFY DEVICE
ef 03 46 00 00 00 a0 00 00:12:46.690 SET FEATURES [Set transfer mode]
Error 17 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 19200 hours (800 days + 0 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 00 ff ff ff 0f Error: UNC at LBA = 0x0fffffff = 268435455
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:12:44.376 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 70 18 10 46 00 00:12:44.339 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 00 f0 3c 10 40 00 00:12:44.299 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:12:43.702 READ FPDMA QUEUED
60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 00:12:43.696 READ FPDMA QUEUED
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Hopefully a new disk will prove the solution. I have not bought one yet because I'm making sure I understand how to choose the correct SSD or NVME and also that I understand and would be capable to install it myself. I have got the pdf manual for this motherboard and have studied the schematic carefully. I have read the vendor web for details. I have looked at a parts compatibility site and read the gibberish there and tried to decipher it to something I can order in the moderately priced FanXing brand that was recommended to me. I have watched a few videos of the process and it looks easy enough. But it has taken some time for me because I can't devote much time to this project, it's really just a side pc anyway.
yes i asked for a robotic penquin with zorin os
