is my hard drive dying?

[Dan Egli]

Brian Beck wrote:

>On Saturday 12 April 2003 14:39, Dan Egli wrote:
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>>Brian Beck wrote:
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>>>the extended test is reporting that everything is good to go, it found no
>>>problems.
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>>>Brian
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>>Then you have two possibilities remaining:
>>1) Your kernel is imagining the errors (not likely)
>>2) Your controller is returning signals that the kernel interprets as
>>errors (more likely).
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>>Can you try a different hard drive?
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>I can in a couple of weeks or so, the report that I got back from IBM was that 
>that file that I sent them showed no signs of trouble, here it is below. I'll 
>pick up a new cable this friday and see what happens.
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>Brian,
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>This is in regards to the call you placed with Hitachi Global Storage
>Technologies.   We have received and reviewed the log file created by the
>Drive Fitness Test.  Your drive appears to be running within
>specifications.   The drive had no errors on it, temperature was normal,
>and the drive does not appear to be suffering from excessive vibration.  At
>this time, I would not recommend replacing the drive.
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The cable is a possibilty I forgot to consider. Since it's Linux I doubt 
it's incorrect DMA settings. Are you running in a Hardware Raid 
environment? Scott mentions the raid controller. Basically, I'd say try 
a new cable, failing that, try a new drive (if you can. Raid0 makes it 
difficult to try a different drive).

--- Dan