Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:03:12 -0800 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5: ext3 bug or dying drive? |
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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:27:40PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > IBM U2W drive on a 2940U2W if it matters. UP kernel.
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Download the Drive Fitness Test "Linux disk creator" (which isn't actually a "disk creator" like the Windows version, but simply a file you dd onto a 1.44MB floppy), then boot off that and try the Quick test. If that doesn't show anything wrong, try the Advanced test or whatever the longer one is called.
If DFT doesn't fail outright and instead offers to erase part of the drive for you to "repair" it, that means there are bad sectors. Conversely, if the Advanced test shows Disposition Code 00, that means the drive is probably OK. (I think another way of interpreting the results is that OK results are text on a green background, and failures are text on red.) Anyway, this stuff will seem more obvious once you try it.
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