Re: strange harddisk noise
Hello Martin,
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Martin Bock wrote:
In October 2003 I purchased my Acer Travelmate 801. Now since today my
harddisk makes strange noise, similar to old CPU fans hitting their
closure. Though the noise is not very loud I am worried.
you may want to read out the SMART data of the disk
(SMART = Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology).
The program `smartctl' can be found in debian package `smartmontools'.
If the disk is about to fail (which sounds likely), it might be able to
tell you that beforehand.
Try smartctl -a /dev/hda to get immediately available information
and
smartctl -t offline /dev/hda
smartctl -t short /dev/hda
smartctl -t long /dev/hda
to initiate extended self-tests which can take hours to perform
(see the manpage for details).
If the disk predicts its upcoming failure, you could mention that when
talking to the manufacturer support staff.
Regards
Andre
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