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[ BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Me, I haven't studied this much, but I've never seen an ATA HDD fail > this test until the disk locked inside starts to die. Hey lookathat serendipitously one of my ATA HDD did just now start to die. In Four steps, Linux can concisely be asked to help watch. 1) http://members.aol.com/plscsi/tools/knoppix/ lets you boot Linux without writing, in particular without repartitioning, your PC HDD, possibly Mac HDD too. 2) In one Terminal window: $ cat /proc/ide/hda/model Maxtor 6E040L0 $ $ sudo dd conv=noerror if=/dev/hda bs=16M of=/dev/null dd: reading `/dev/hda': Input/output error 271+1 records in 271+1 records out dd: reading `/dev/hda': Input/output error 290+2 records in 290+2 records out ... Ctrl+Z to pause this test, `fg` to resume it. 3) In parallel in another Terminal window: $ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages ... Nov 26 11:53:56 patrh9 sudo: pat : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pat ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/dd conv=noerror if=/dev/hda bs=16M of=/dev/null ... Nov 26 12:19:03 patrh9 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 26 12:19:03 patrh9 kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=9576144, sector=9576144 Nov 26 12:19:03 patrh9 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 9576144 Nov 26 12:19:03 patrh9 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 1197018 ... 4) I have actually logged these procedures into this e-mail from a Red Hat 9 Linux boot. I therefore can't yet know if this procedure works precisely like this in a particular version of Knoppix. However, if in fact someone here is actually that interested, I'd happily help find out. 5) I have very little idea of how all this works. If you playing in this space smashes something of yours, yes I'm deeply interested to know how, but indeed I cannot accept any responsibility. Pat LaVarre http://members.aol.com/ppaatt/
