yep. it died this afternoon. it was a Maxtor OneTouch, the second I have. I threw it fast out of the window.... my disruption to jfs was not jfs related; sorry
unfortunately, smart doesn't work with external USB drives, AFAIKS. thans for your hints either. marcel On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:44:54PM -0500, Sonny Rao wrote: > When I see scsi errors like that I usually run smartctl on the disk > (part of the smarttools). It will usually tell you exactly what type > of errors occurred on the disk. In general if smart is telling you > things, the disk is probably dying. _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@www-124.ibm.com http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
