Hi,
On 8 Nov 2007, at 20:40, David Naylor wrote:
[possible disk problem]
I have no idea what is wrong (if the disk has corrupted should the
kernel
not display error messages?). Can you please help/advise?
A flaky disk drive (rather than a corrupt filesystem on a good disk)
will not necessarily talk enough sense for drivers to behave as we'd
all like.
If you suspect the disk hardware, your first recourse should be to
the manufacturer's diagnostic tool - they all have one, usually a
bootable floppy (or CD these days), look on the disk manufacturer's
website.
SMART is fine if the disk is working and may even help with an
incipient failure that hasn't done any serious damage yet. Otherwise
the manufacturer's diagnostic is your best bet.
--
Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243
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