I have a WD Mybook 320GB usb/firewire drive which is about 1 yr old. Warranty is 2 years I think. It is fully encrypted with dmcrypt & Luks. I power it up once a day and it stays on for about 12 hours (as a home server) and the manual recommends *not* turning it on more than once a day.
Now it "failed" as in I ssh's to my home server and did ls -l on one of the folders and several files came up red with question marks for the owner group and file size. I turned the server off and rebooted, and Luks failed to open the drive and offered to drop me into a recovery terminal mode to fix the problem. I didn't know what to do so I rebooted again and it mounted the drive as expected. It has been "ok" for 2 days now. I have run smartctl -Hc /dev/sda and done an fsck -f /dev/sda and they report no issues. How else can I tell if my drive is failing?? --andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
