On May 3, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Lan Barnes wrote:
If it's dying, I can't prove it with smartd, hence my desire to take it to the installfest Saturday where adults can pore over it. I also wondered if the DMA controller got fried when the thing overheated. I'm as educated about hardware as the next Fiji Island native, but it seems to me that HD problems could arise if DMA in unreliable. So maybe the drive is the goodpart and the MB has fried components?
In my experience (which, happily, seems mirrored by Google's recent report), SMART is really just about useless. Don't rely upon it as a true test of whether the hard drive is operating correctly or not.
The errors you indicated earlier are indicative of a hard drive failure, having suffered several of them myself in the past (at least one from each major vendor, it would seem.) Swapping in another drive, even temporarily, should allow you to determine if it really is the drive or the motherboard that's been toasted.
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