On Aug 29 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: > I have installed smartmontools using Fink and the result of the short > test is : > > gslc12|charles|$ smartctl -l selftest /dev/disk0 > smartctl version 5.33 [powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) > LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 4449 > 2865202 > # 2 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 4449 > 2865202 > # 3 Offline Aborted by host 70% 0 -
Hummm, bad result. As I suspected last week, it was something of a defective drive. :-( > Is there a risk of damaging further the disk by performing a long > test? There is a small possibility, but, in general, I wouldn't say an incisive yes, as the test may be aborted at the first strange noise that you hear. > There is some non-backuped data on this disk, and although I can > afford losing it, I would prefer not... Of course losing it is not the preferred way. > Many thanks for your help, You are very welcome. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
