On Friday 24 Feb 2012 02:44:00 Grant wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how far gone an old Maxtor HD of mine is. It > does have S.M.A.R.T. support. Is there a favorite smartctl command > for making this determination? 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' says: > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > and: > > ATA Error Count: 116 > > Is a self-test in order? > > - Grant
Run smartctl --capabilities /dev/hda to find out what tests the drive can do. If goes without saying that if you suspect the drive use ddrescue to make a back up before you start running any tests, just in case there is a problem that a new cable/ribbon won't fix. -- Regards, Mick
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