On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:36:31 -0500 Bill Morita <[email protected]> dijo:
>Time to "Get SMART" > >http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart I installed smartmontoools, and the GUI for it. gsmartcntl. The drive does not appear in the BIOS, so neither does it appear to smartmontools. However I did use it to check the two 320 GB drives, which it reported as "healthy." It appears that the data available under the Smart tab in Palimpsest is much more complete. I had removed the 1 TB drive, so before trying smatmontools and iotools (thanks, Dale) I plugged it back in. As soon as I plugged in the power cable it made clicking noises for a minute or so. I assume this means the head is seeking, and failing to find whatever it is looking for. Monday I will call Seagate to see if they will still honor the warranty, considering that it is a refurbished drive that Seagate sent me to replace the original that also failed. If they will honor the warranty they will require that I run their diagnostics utility, which only runs on Windows. I don't have a Windows computer. I also looked around for replacement drives. Almost half the drives on the market are Seagate, with Western Digital offering almost as many. Western Digital also requires their proprietary diagnostic tool, which also runs only on Windows. There aren't a lot of other brands to choose from. Newegg offers a few, but Enu and Fry's have only Seagate and Western Digital. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
