HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for both answers. I effectively removed the very old one, installed at its place a brand new HDD. This way, I disconnected the one which was SMART-recognized as sick, and put a new one which now contains /home/* This looks perfect, I just had