Re: weird harddrive messages
On Saturday 13 July 2002 11:45 am, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:47:02PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) "nate"
> >
> > <debian-user@aphroland.org> wrote:
> > > badblocks has never worked for me..seems it always spits out no
> > > errors for my drives even when they are seriously damaged.
> >
> > It's saved my skin once already.
> >
> > > i reccomend running the diagnostics program hopefully available
> > > from the disk vendor. IBM has drive fitness test, maxtor has
> > > Maxblast(i think), not sure about western digital.
>
> <snip. A lot :)>
>
> I had this a while back and it was caused by an incorrectly
> configured drive controller, just as it attempted to use DMA.
It could also be a cable starting to work loose and giving you an
intermittent error - it's happened to me before. Things may not be
as bad as they seem...
- Derek
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