Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Sunday, 2009-01-25 at 09:44 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Both disks passed the extended (long) test (whew!), so that narrows down the problem to the cabling, or maybe the controller card.
There is another possibility. Some manufacturers, like seagate, have a stand alone utility that run those tests under control of the cpu, including controller and cable test (so they say). It is a floppy or iso bootable image.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/ At bottom of page is a link to commandline version. Worked fine under openSUSE 11.0 when I had to bad Barracuda drives in a week. Also there is a recall of certain model Seagate and Maxtor drives with a model number starting with ST, including some in Barracuda line. I had two Maxtor drives go bad within two weeks of each other, they were actually barracuda models. Seagate replaced them free, both were slightly over a year old. Both the smartmon (long test only) and the seagate diagnostic show the failure as bad media. I have not tried the seagate test on an 11.1 system, disks are running great. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org