On Mar 21, 2010, at 11:10 AM, John Carmonne wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Jim Scott wrote: > >> >> On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, John Carmonne wrote: >>> >>>> I'm wondering If I may have a machine problem and not a failing HDD? >>>> Because when I put it back in the G4 MDD again I got the S.M.A.R.T warning. >>> >>> >>> SMART reporting is done on the hard drive itself, so if SMART is reporting >>> a failure, then the drive is bad. >>> >>> I'd return it to seagate for replacement under warrantee. >> >> Agreed. To confirm the Seagate is failing, put it in another machine on >> which SMARTReporter is installed. In my experience, hard drives with SMART >> capabilities lose them when installed in an external drive. That's why a >> utility like Drive Genius 2 comes in handy when sorting out external drive >> issues. >> >> > I ran Drive Genius 2 on the drive and it passed but back in the SMART > situation it continues to fail. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior also pass it in > an external enclosure.
Which Drive Genius 2 test did you run? I suspect you just ran the Scan (for bad sector) test. I've got a stack of drives that pass that, multiple times. But the same drives have failed the Integrity Check test, especially when set to do Sustained Read and/or Sustained Write for more than 5 minutes (I use 30 minutes most of the time). SMART is much more sophisticated. It looks for and picks up all kinds of anomalies that Drive Genius 2, Disk Utility and DiskWarrior don't. It only takes one little anomaly to turn the icon red, if I understand correctly. That's an early warning of impending failure. I've seen drives run for months with a red icon, and I've seen them die shortly after the icon turns red. It all depends on the failure mode(s). Click on the SmartReporter icon and then Display Log, which should give an indication of the type of failure the built-in self-diagnostic SMART utility has found. Whatever you do, make sure you get a new drive and that Seagate replaces the one with a SMART warning. Jim Scott -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
