Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors.
WD has this and requires some users to run the util and report an error code before RMA... check with your drive mfgr for their policy. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: | You can try running fsck and badblocks to attempt to fix the errors. But | I've never had luck with either of those tools on a drive that was dieing. | If the errors remain, there's a 99% probability the drive is bad. | > | >I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog | >on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and | >what I should do? -- _ __ _____ __ _________ ______________ /_______ ___ ____ /______ John Gonzalez/Net.Tech __ __ \ __ \ __/_ __ `__ \/ __ /_ ___/ MDC Computers/netMDC! _ / / / `__/ /_ / / / / / / /_/ / / /__ (505)437-7600/fax-437-3052 /_/ /_/\___/\__/ /_/ /_/ /_/\__,_/ \___/ http://www.netmdc.com [---------------------------------------------[system info]-----------] 9:55pm up 62 days, 3:58, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.18, 0.15
