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Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: DevilKin <devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org>
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Subject: Re: ide drive dying?
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Send me the results offline

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
> 
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Andre Hedrick
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