Time to "Get SMART" http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart
-- Bill Morita 512-569-6387 (Cell) On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Dale Snell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:02:51 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Having discovered that I could hot-plug the other 320 GB drive I tried > > it with the 1 TB drive. But the result was not what I hoped for. The > > disk light came on and stayed on continuously and Xubuntu did not > > mount the drive. I don't know what this means, and since the drive is > > not visible to Xubuntu, or even the BIOS, there is no way to do > > diagnostics on it. The only thing I can think of to try is to install > > it in another desktop computer with SATA ports to see if it is > > recognized. > > Download and install the "iotop" package. You'll have to run it as > root, but it should tell you what process is hogging the drive. The > drive is probably bad, but it doesn't hurt to check. > > Anyway, hope this helps. > > --Dale > > -- > The attitude of "Oh, you want it should work? That costs extra!" > is the biggest security hole in computer software today. > -- Anon., paraphrased (anybody know the real source?) > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
