You can *read test* your disk with a command like
'badblocks -vs /dev/sda' ran as root (or with sudo).
This can be very useful to 'test' if you *currently*
have any unreadable sectors. It simply reads every
single sector on /dev/sda drive.
FYI, I have no badblocks reported:
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Interesting, many thanks. I will try the read test as you suggest.
My current HDD was cloned from the previous similar model which exhibited
similar systems before refusing to boot. Luckily the problems on the old
HDD were intermittent. I managed to get both new and old HDD online via
If you can obtain the program GRC Spinright run that on your Drive that will
give you a idea of wether or not it's on it's way out or faulty :)
From: ichaud...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:25:45 +0100
To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is my HDD on the way out
On 24 March 2012 20:53, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be sure and
used dd if=old hdd of=new hdd
That's generally how I do things. Then use fdisk to sort out any
partitioning issues (I'm generally transferring data to a bigger drive...)
Would that somehow transfer badblock info?
No. You're transferring the view of your data as it is presented by the
drive
On 26/03/12 13:41, Vic wrote:
used dd if=old hdd of=new hdd
That's generally how I do things. Then use fdisk to sort out any
partitioning issues (I'm generally transferring data to a bigger drive...)
Would that somehow transfer badblock info?
No. You're transferring the view of your
the program GRC Spinright run that on your Drive that
will give you a idea of wether or not it's on it's way out or faulty :)
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From: ichaud...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:25:45 +0100
To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is my HDD
On 24 March 2012 20:53, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be sure and
On 2012-03-24 20:53, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be sure
and months passed with no errors
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be sure
and months passed with no errors until the above which happened about week
ago.
Check out smartmontools[1] (specifically the `smartctl` binary) to access your
hard drives S.M.A.R.T.[2] information - if that reports errors then it's likely
your drive is failing.
Posts such as this one suggest that it may be another iffy SATA cable:
On 24/03/12 20:53, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be
sure and months passed with no errors
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