Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-10-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Calomel wrote: If you really want to check the drive and verify it has errors then check out the binary called badblocks. I do not believe OpenBSD has badblocks but you can use the cd distro system rescue cd and run badblocks from there without removing the drive from the current

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread knitti
Hi, On 9/28/07, Leonardo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? I don't know, which tools exist for OpenBSD, but if you're

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Leonardo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? To my

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/28 08:17, Leonardo Marques wrote: I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? It's worth trying a different cable, if that doesn't help, replace the disk...

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Leonardo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? To my mind that kind of errors say run, don't walk to the store for replacement.

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Leonardo Marques
Really thanks for all guys! I'm running now for the store to buy another HD for the BACKUP server :P On 9/28/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonardo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Michał Koc
Peter N. M. Hansteen pisze: Leonardo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? To my mind that kind of errors say run, don't

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Dorian Büttner
Leonardo Marques wrote: Hey guys, I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? HD: WDC WD1200JD-00HBB0 Errors: dmesg |grep -i wd0 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: WDC

Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Leonardo Marques
Hey guys, I've a HD which are returning a lot of errors. Someone know some good tool to analyze this disk and tell me if i've to replace it or if exist some way to repair it? HD: WDC WD1200JD-00HBB0 Errors: dmesg |grep -i wd0 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: WDC WD1200JD-00HBB0 wd0: 16-sector

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-09-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
Uhm sorry claudio but it is the other way around. The only time you can detect failed sectors is on reads. When a read fails the disk goes into a proprietary algorithm to try to recover as much of the sector as possible. Depending on the manufacturer they'll do something in excess of 15000