Bill, Out IT guy usually chills dying drives for 2-3 hours at 4-6 C and then he tries to extract the info. He has a big rate of success with this technique.
Good Luck Man! Alfredo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Kendrick Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:46 PM To: [email protected]; lugod's technical discussion forum Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Hard drive dying? On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:58:54PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: > sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda Gives me: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 058 041 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 42 (Lifetime Min/Max 38/49) 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 179710021603702 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 2384165937 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 000 000 000 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 30165814 So I'm getting "PASSED", plus "FAILING_NOW"...? > Gives you the basic yes/no > > sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda Attached as an attachment... Looks like a bunch of "Pre-fail" and "Old-age" reports...? -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
