Re: DMA issue
On Saturday 25 September 2004 10:28, Josh Lauricha wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2004, at 9:13 AM, Justin Guerin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:50, Josh Lauricha wrote:
[snip]
> Well, taking Justin's advice, I've pulled the disk put it into another
> computer and tried to use the smarttools on it. smartctl -a /dev/hdc
> shows it's SMART capable, however smart -s on fails. I'd take it this
> is a good sign the drives dead?
>
> But I just noticed that, when mounted ro it works okay.
>
Dead, or in the process. Using it in ro mode is great, because it allows
you to get your data off before it dies. The on-drive controller having
errors is a bad sign.
Justin Guerin
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