Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive
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On 02/26/08 20:24, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>> I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I
>>> feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large
>>> files than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be
>>> dying.
>> Is it coughing blood? Faint heartbeat? High/fluttering blood
>> pressure? Blue lips?
>>
>
> More like cancer - it's (the hard drive's) performance gets weaker day by
> day and there seem to be no cure. I am trying to get an early diagnosis.
Do what we did when my Uncle was dying: give it lots of morphine.
And what we should have done: gotten all the passwords...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and
make them into big productions."
Pitr Dubovitch
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