Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
If the drive supports SMART, smartctl should be able to test it and
display the diagnostics. I'd try to get a replacement before the
warranty expires.
But of course!
What's interesting is that I currently have the SMART in the BIOS
disabled, and the disk says it doesn't support SMART capability (per
smartctl). I don't know if that's because the BIOS SMART is disabled,
but I'm still going to put some pressure on it.
A real simple test for dumb drives is:
cat /dev/hda >/dev/null
^^^^ change appropriately for the device
and watch for errors to show up in /var/log/messages or dmesg.
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Les Mikesell
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