What about using a live cd and smartmontools? I had a similar problem. Just 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' is enough to get lots of info about the status of the hd and its problems.
In my case few sectors died but they were (probably) in the partition map... so my partition map disapperad and my partitions were lost. It was not a big issue since I had to repartition in those days and everything was backupped. After some tries (few hours?) bad sectors were replaced by hd hardware and now my disk seems totally clean (no more bad sectors detected). Since every disk utility is not able to detect anomalies I think my disk is safe now. HTH Emanuele On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:26:32AM +0000, Paul Brossier wrote: > hello, > > i have had more and more problems in the last two months with the hard disk of > my ibook g4 (PowerBook6,5). it all started one morning, while reading emails, > after a few days uptime, heavy disc activity the day before. the system was > being more and more unresponsive. trying to quit mutt, it told me 'read only > filesystem'. dmesg replied 'Input/Output error'. ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
