Re: smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:58:19AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]: > > can anyone explain why the cat worked? > > it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't > stick. so say a given byte is 0xcf and wh

Re: smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.14.0221 +0100]: > can anyone explain why the cat worked? it is entirely possible that reads work fine, just that writes don't stick. so say a given byte is 0xcf and when you read it, you get 0xcf, but when you write 0x45 to it, it either rema

smartctl vs cat

2003-03-13 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, I have a hdd which i suspect id dieing [yes i have burnt cds of any important stuf] this drive is in a windows box, so stuck in knoppix cd for diagnostics. cat /dev/hda >/dev/null gives no output [no errors?] -me thought that would be a good indication that all sectors of the disk are read