At 01:20 PM 6/5/2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Modern hard drives have a built-in self-diagnosis system called SMART.
The corresponding Debian package is called "smartmontools". You can
install this package (or boot from a suitable live CD) and run
Well I got an RMA from the vendor for my hdb1 (250GB HD) after their
diagnostic product gave me a code on a full test. But then I read this article
http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=12488
and following its advice and holding down <cr> lots and lots during
the repair prompts, was able to mount and use the data. Then reran
the diagnostic -- powermax -- and the full test came out clean. So
I've re-added my hdb1 partition to /etc/fstab and rebooted and all seems well.
The following's what I get for current status so I'm wondering if
this turned out to be a software issue after all and I ought to
cancel my RMA, or if the HD's likely to act up again.
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penskefile:/home/marty# dmesg | grep hdb
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
hdb: Maxtor 6Y250L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(33)
penskefile:/home/marty# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd1 1610894 189051 1335897 13% /
tmpfs 128552 0 128552 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 4134900 59424 3865428 2% /home
/dev/hdb1 241263968 33009336 195999048 15% /mnt
/dev/hdd6 3874076 1755680 1921604 48% /usr
penskefile:/home/marty# fdisk /dev/hdb1
[snip]
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb1: 250.9 GB, 250994386944 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30514 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): q
penskefile:/home/marty#
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