On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 07 December 2006 09:45, Pete Connolly wrote: <snip>
Very strange. Have you tried just doing a smartctl -H /dev/<drive> to check it's health? Or maybe seeing it capabilities with smartctl -c /dev/<drive>? Just to see if smart can do useful things will it.
Another approach is to check the drive manufacturer's website for downloadable diagnostic tools that can be run from a floppy or CD.
I have the problem on the same computer with any one of 4 newly purchased
HD's. I can move them to the other lappy's and they never fail. On
yesterday's 6:00-6:30 AM failure I turned off HT support in the BIOS. I
have not tried it this way. This has been going on with 10.1 for 6-8
weeks. When I run the utilites before failure everything works great.
But after the failure when I try to run them the machine just hangs and
the only message it the one posted. Really strange.
Thanks,
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Boyd Gerber