Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I've been told Hitachi bought up IBM's drive manufacturing operation a

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I've been told

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: SNIP Thanks, I'll browse through these. It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I have been getting these errors

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: SNIP It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. Thanks for your help. LOL. I make a back-up of mine too. It never hurts to be safe. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver crashed and locked

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread b.n.
Mick ha scritto: This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I forced a

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: snip I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all. Thanks. Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: snip I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a very similar error. My Western Digital

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: SNIP Thanks, I'll browse through these. It makes me wonder if the drives are sensitive to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests tho.