On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > > Thanks, I'll browse through these. > > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as > Maxtor I wonder? > > I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests > tho. You can run that with this: smartctl -t long /dev/hdX The X > should be replaced with the correct drive or you may have to use sdX if > you have SATA drives. After it gets done, which may take a while, you > can get the results like this: smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdX. Replace > the X again. > > Hope you get a good report. Mine passed.
All the tests that I have run so far seem to pass: =================================================== # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 5912 - # 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1030 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1029 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 49 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 28 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - =================================================== It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Mick
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