Time to "Get SMART"

http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart


-- Bill Morita
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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?)
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