Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:08:04 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? |
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, DevilKin wrote:
> On Friday 06 September 2002 17:36, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > > > I've looked up these errors on the net, and as far as i can tell it means > > > that the drive has some bad sectors at the given addresses and that it > > > will probably die on me sooner or later. > > > > > > Can someone either confirm this to me or tell me what to do to fix it? > > > > > > The drive involved is an IBM-DTLA-307060, which has served me without > > > problems now for about 2 years. > > > > Have a look at: > > > > http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml > > > > there you will find software for interrogating and monitoring the > > S.M.A.R.T. data available from your drive. It's a little late to start > > monitoring it, if the drive is already dying, but if, for example, it shows > > a lot of re-allocated sectors, or spin retries, you'll know something is > > wrong. > > > > OK, I downloaded that and installed it, but well, frankly, it shows me very > little useful stuff. > > Or i'm just not good at interpreting this. > > DK > > -- > "I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very > reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment." > -- Gotama Buddha > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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