I'm currently trying out the 30 day nagware version of S.M.A.R.T. Disk
Monitor that seems pretty good. Unfortunately, the $20 personal version
is limited to 2 disks and no email notification. The uncrippled
Corporate/Server version is $40 which I think is rather steep. If
there's something adequate that's free it would be of great benefit to
us all.
On a related note I pulled an old hardrive that I thought had died on me
and installed it on a fluke only to find that the drive is fine. Only 7
gigs but big enough for Ubuntu and [EMAIL PROTECTED] HardOCP has a Folding
team and they're always talking about "Folding for the [H]ord" and I was
wondering how many of us are interested in forming a Hardware Group
Folding Team? What do you say Jim? Chris? @:D>
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
I just ran Maxtor's Powermax software and came up with a dying
harddrive. I'll RMA it and see what happens. The symptoms seemed
similar to another Maxtor the died on me. The beginning symptom is that
getting a list of folders/files takes a few extra seconds. Not enough
to really tip you off. Then the folders start dying. Last drive went
all at once (or I accessed it too infrequently to notice). This time I
has some warning.
On my small setup, I've had four HD die on me--one WD and 3 Maxtors.
I'm beginning to wonder about Maxtor.
FWIW: There is only one other Maxtor on this system with Two Western
Digitals. None of the rest seems to show any problems.
What's good freeware to read SMART? I had something but I've misplaced
it.....
Thanks....Steve
On 12/20/05, *Stan Zaske* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Almost always software related. @:D>
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
> I have a drive acting funny on my Nforce 3 (MSI Neo3 Platinum)
and I'm
> wondering if this is a board that I should dump entirely. I have
6800
> video card in it which is the combination that causes problems, but I
> was wondering if the Nforce3 chipset has enough problems that I
should
> replace it with something else. Does anyone have any info on this?
>
> The secondary question would be what to replace it with, since
I'm stuck
> with a 754 socket processor.
>
> The hard drive in question is a Maxtor PATA 250G drive that is
probably
> all of 6 months old. The symptoms? I cannot access some
directories.
> Explorer (this is 2000) gives an 'inpage error'. MS support only has
> one article on this and it relates to bad floppy media. Luckily
most of
> the drive is backed up, but I can't help wondering if the board
(or the
> Nforce drivers) are causing the problem. The system was on 24/7 for
> several weeks, so it's now shut down just in case it was a heat
> problem. Will try and get the drive up later today.
>
> As always, any recommendations are appreciated!
>
> Thanks...Steve
>
>
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