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On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > Thanks, I'll browse through these. |
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> It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This |
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> seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as |
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> Maxtor I wonder? |
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> I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests |
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> tho. You can run that with this: smartctl -t long /dev/hdX The X |
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> should be replaced with the correct drive or you may have to use sdX if |
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> you have SATA drives. After it gets done, which may take a while, you |
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> can get the results like this: smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdX. Replace |
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> the X again. |
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> Hope you get a good report. Mine passed. |
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All the tests that I have run so far seem to pass: |
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# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda |
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smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen |
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Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ |
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=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === |
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SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 |
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Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) |
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LBA_of_first_error |
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# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 5912 - |
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# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1030 - |
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# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1029 - |
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# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 49 - |
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# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 28 - |
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# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - |
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It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. |
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Thanks for your help. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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