On 04/25/2011 08:11 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > I also have 2 other external drives (both 1.5Tb) that work just fine. In > fact they sit right next to the Seagate Go drive. What's interesting is > that when I boot to Win 7 and test the drive Windows says there are no > problems (of course it is Windows so I don't necessarily trust what it > tells me). I've had drives fail, but usually this is accompanied by > obvious problems such as corrupted files and there tends to be kernel > messages in /var/log/messages. > > At this point I'm not sure what to do. > > Paolo substitute the sda by the device reported by smartd in the following line: smartctl -a /dev/sda | less there look for the lines: - SMART overall-health self-assessment test result if the result is FAILED, I recommend replace your disk - Reallocated_Sector_Ct - Reallocated_Event_Count - Current_Pending_Sector if the last column of the above lines aren't zero, well sometimes some sectors cannot read/write anymore so the disk remaps them with spare sectors, so a disk with bad sectors can work normally, but if the disk runs out from spare sectors well at that moment the disk is bad Gabriel -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
