On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, mathieu perrenoud wrote: > The BIOS seems happy with each disk. Mandrake never gave me any HD error. > What can I do now? Change my motherboard? throw my disks away? > How can I be sure that the error come from the disks, from the MB's chipset or > from a gentoo's driver? Could the fact that I told my disks to fo to standby > mode after a while cause problems? > > Is there a tool to tests the whole disks?
Emerge smartmontools. (For Self Monitoring, Analysis, Reporting Tool). This supplies smartctl (for direct usage) and smartd (for background monitoring). Probably any Linux on CD distro will include it. I highly recommend that everyone use this program. As a side note, the man page was clearly written for Redhat. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
