Eric on 21 Oct 2005 10:29:17 -0000 |
In a situation like this I reach for SpinRight from Steve Gibson (www.grc.com). It's a fantastic product for the money (~ $35). Effectively, it's like having a hard drive technician and a disk tune up on a CDROM. It's a small program too (he writes in assembler) and easily fits on a mini or business-card-size CD. I always carry a copy with me when I'm working. Any time I see the slightest complaint from a hard drive I run SpinRight (in level 2) and, in almost all cases, I never have another problem with the disk. Gone, Done, Fini. Highly recommended! Good luck. Eric On Friday 21 October 2005 12:13 am, Doug Crompton wrote: > Turns out this message has been appearing in my log probably since I > started using SMART a year or more ago. I ran all the tests in smartclt > and all passed and general health passed. > > Doug > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 gyoza@comcast.net wrote: > > > Doug Crompton wrote: > > > > >I am getting the following SMART error occasionally in my logs - > > > > > > Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed > > >from 100 to 200 > > > > > >Anyone know what this means? Should I be concerned? > > > > > > > > > > > I would run some SMART checks to investigate. Any message with the > > words "prefailure" and "error" would make me worry a little. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > **************************** > * Doug Crompton * > * Richboro, PA 18954 * > * 215-431-6307 * > * * > * doug@crompton.com * > * http://www.crompton.com * > **************************** > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Eric A Lucas # ------------ # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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