Re: Hard Drive Error Disk or Motherboard?

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Mel wrote:
Paul Ward wrote:

Can anyone explain a way totest these disk so I can be sure they are
not corrupt.

At the risk of angering the gods, do you have access to a Windows
 system?

There is a test program that I have used that seems to be an extensive test program.

It comes from IBM/Hitachi and is called a "Drive Fitness test". They request you run it before asking them for help with a disk problem or before returning a disk because you think it is defective.

You can find it at: www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm


One added note from experience, the drive test may check out but the drive could still be defective. I replaced over 200 disks, probably over 300 by now for the 2.5 inch disks.

Check on the hard disk controller to see if there is any coating on the printed circuit board of the hard drive. It looks either burned or corroded. Anyway it will be obvious to the visual inspection.

These disks were running w2k as the OS and the disk checking program never flagged the drives as bad. The program might be improved over what I saw in the past.

We no longer use the IBM/Hitachi disks and failure is at least 50% less failures than before concerning hard disks.

Not a knock on IBM/Hitachi disks in particular since we ran them in 24/7 operations before switching to another vendor.

Jim

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