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Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS Xv10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results)



 
 
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Old February 20th 17, 06:51 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.hdd
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Default Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS Xv10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results)

On 2/20/2017 7:33 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2017-02-20, Ant wrote:
Someone asked me to run SMART test on the internal HDD. Here are the
results with an old SMARTreporter app (still failed long tests in the
same HDD spot):

smartctl 5.41 2011-04-06 r3314 [i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] (local build)
[snip]

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 099 099 062 Pre-fail
Always - 131072
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail
Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 234 234 033 Pre-fail
Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 095 095 000 Old_age
Always - 9139
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail
Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail
Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 056 056 000 Old_age
Always - 19436
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age
Always - 4081
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 8591638708
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 069 069 000 Old_age Always
- 318366
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 152 152 000 Old_age Always
- 36 (Min/Max 15/49)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0


That drive is obviously on its way out. I'd go ahead and replace it.


Thanks. I was able to download, compile, and run its newer version
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/6.5/smartmontools-6.5.tar.gz/download)'s
source under the external HDD's new Mac OS X v10.5.8 installation (also
had to install its Xcode from its DVD #2). I got the similiar results. I
guess the old HDD caused a data corruption to make the old OS boot up
fail that started a couple nights ago?
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Old February 20th 17, 07:00 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.hdd
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Default Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS Xv10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results)

On 2017-02-20, Ant wrote:
On 2/20/2017 7:33 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2017-02-20, Ant wrote:
Someone asked me to run SMART test on the internal HDD. Here are the
results with an old SMARTreporter app (still failed long tests in the
same HDD spot):
[snip]


That drive is obviously on its way out. I'd go ahead and replace it.


Thanks. I was able to download, compile, and run its newer version
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/6.5/smartmontools-6.5.tar.gz/download)'s
source under the external HDD's new Mac OS X v10.5.8 installation (also
had to install its Xcode from its DVD #2). I got the similiar results. I
guess the old HDD caused a data corruption to make the old OS boot up
fail that started a couple nights ago?


There's really no way of knowing whether the drive issues cause the
system not to be able to start up properly until you find out what's
actually preventing startup.

Personally I wouldn't bother trying to figure out more. I'd just replace
the drive with a new one, install a fresh OS on the new drive, hook up
the old drive to the computer during installation, and let the setup
assistant migrate the data from the old drive to the new system when
prompted.

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