Messages in this thread |  | | From | DevilKin <> | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:55:06 +0200 |
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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
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