On Tuesday 12 December 2006 17:19, jdd wrote:
do you know any utility able to do for a hdd what memtest do for RAM?
It seems like I have HW problems and I can't figure out what. fsck don't gives anything.
symptoms: on heavy work, linux freezes, disk is corrupted, but as soon as I reformat it fsck -c don't complain anymore, but the freeze keep occuring again. tested with ext3 and reiserfs :-(
I don't remember having seen badblocks listed by fsck,
There is a utility called "badblocks". See it's manpage for usage. It lives in /sbin/ (of course), and is probably already installed. Maybe this is what you're looking for?
arrors where like date of the superblock in the future or inode error (and there has been a crash, so this is not surprising)
the cpu could be hot, but I fixed the fan (some oil) and still freezes :-(
Any other disk drives in the same PC that do not have this behavior, or this drive showing same erroneous behavior in a different PC are indications dat it might be a faulty drive. Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org