Re: ibook g4 hard drive failures

[Emanuele Olivetti <olivetti@itc.it>]

Probably the parameter of "reallocated sector counts" (initially 100
and currently 001) decreased in the last weeks till the pre-fail
threshold (50) and then below: this can explain the hd behaviour you
experienced.

You can configure smartmontools to self test weekly and send you an
e-mail when a parameters goes down near thresholds. It isn't a 100%
solution to hd troubles but it helps a lot.

Emanuele

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:46:35PM +0000, Paul Brossier wrote:
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> looks like mine has something worst. for the record, here is an instance
> of the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda'. 
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...
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   001   001   050    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 1023
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