Messages in this thread |  | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: ide drive dying? | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2002 16:36:49 +0100 (BST) |
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> 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.
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