Sorry about last mail, it's not my intention to send last mail
Chinese government's firewall is interfering web mail:
filtering, blocking... it makes yahoo mail slow and hard to use
seagate's new tool is for Windows, i've not used Windows for long time
i've read their guide for old tool, its function look like smart tool
i'm afraid it won't be helpful to my diagnosis effort
my hp dx5150 pc probably supports sata1 only
and it work well with Western Digital sata3 320G disk
but seem to have trouble with Seagate problem disk
it probably caused 2 linux installation failures
problem disk seem to have less trouble with my more modern ThinkCentre
which supports sata2
Thank Miles, problem disk doesn't have bad sector after all
root@debian:~# /sbin/smartctl -A /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [i686-linux-4.19.0-10-686] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 152718313
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 689
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 080 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 116258594
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 4022
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 350
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 099 001 000 Old_age Always - 2242007139067
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 082 082 000 Old_age Always - 18
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 066 045 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 34 (Min/Max 26/36)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 034 055 000 Old_age Always - 34 (0 7 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 060 056 000 Old_age Always - 152718313
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 196 000 Old_age Always - 89