If there is any doubt about the drives, I recommend some serious testing: - SMART disk firmware checks: - display current firmware error state using smartctl -a /dev/sdc and skdump /dev/sdc - pay particular attention to Relocated Sectors and Current Pending count - run tests smartctl -t long /dev/sdc (the length depends on drive, but will probably be an hour or so)
- badblocks -sv /dev/sdc of course change /dev/sdc to wherever your disk shows up as. The nice thing is that recent SMART utilities can talk to disks across most USB-SATA interfaces On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Dale Amon wrote: > >> I have seen overheated drives appear to be throwing errors all over the >> place, but after cooled down show no errors at all. > > Dale, > > It's quite hot here today and the external drive enclosure has no fan. It > felt quite hot yesterday, but not as hot today. You're probably right on > with your explanation. > > Since the drive is normally on only overnight (I turn it on when I log out > of the system), and it's cooler then, I expect to not see these errors > repeated. > > Many thanks, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
