> Well, I have been wrong a few times before, but jumping to conclusions > has stood me well over the years on average. I'm a semi-almost-nearly > retired broadcast engineer and a Certified Electronics Technician with > over 55 years of corraling electrons for a living. They never seem to > want you to fully retire when they *think* they might have to call me > in an emergency. So they sort of keep me on retainer or something. It > helps pay the medical insurance thats a bit hard to get when you're > past 70. :) > > Let me know what the Seagate diagnostics thinks of it. I'm assuming of > course that the cabling is correct, as in this drive *is* on the end of > the cable, and not the middle connector, and that the longer section of > the cable is plugged into the motherboard, as either of those two > conditions not being met can bite you in a similar manner. > > Good luck, and toss me a mail if thats it, or the drive itself is > toasted.
Hello again, Thanks for the responses. Last night I run SeaTools tool on the entire disk and did not find any errors. I did a full test. I do not understand why this tool does not tell anything about the SMART thing and the recorded errors I see with smartctl :-( Yes, I have a 40 GB drive on the middle of the cable and the 160 GB drive is on the end. Today I am going to buy a new cable just to discard the cable issue (I do not know if it makes sense). Also I am going to measure disk input voltages just to verify everything is ok on the power suppy. I have another Debian Sarge on the 40GB drive that I use to backup the first disk. I have booted from it and made a full system backup of my Debian partition on the first disk. This problem is very annoying because it happens some times. For example, I did a full backup on the 40GB disk from my Debian partition on the first disk without problems. But sometimes, when I mount mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/harddisk1(on the second disk) It refuses to mount and I get the disk unrecoverable errors. But sometimes it just works fine. This is driving me nuts ;-) I am lost on what to do. Thank you very much in advance. Ramiro. > > >Regards. > > > >Ramiro,.
