is my hard drive dying?

[Brian Beck]

On Saturday 12 April 2003 21:34, Dan Egli wrote:
> Brian Beck wrote:
> >On Saturday 12 April 2003 14:39, Dan Egli wrote:
> >>Brian Beck wrote:
> >>>the extended test is reporting that everything is good to go, it found
> >>> no problems.
> >>>
> >>>Brian
> >
> >==================================='
> >
> >>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).
> >>
> >>Can you try a different hard drive?
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Brian,
> >
> >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.
>
> 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
> 
I am not using raid, and the raid connectors on the MB are not being used.
 I bought this board figuring for the next upgrade, when this board will 
become the server,  The cable is pretty new, less than 3 months. 
The tech support people were pretty surprised that I was able to have logs of 
the hard drive error and that my wifes computer (also with a IBM drive) was 
showing no errors at all, both systems are running a fresh install of reheat 
9, 
I just flashed the bios to the newest and greatest so to speak, and that 
allways makes me sweat, but the errors are still there, in fact you know the 
boot up screen where you get the long list of "OK" I am getting 3 to 4 errors 
scrolling in between those "OK" messages, something that was never there with 
redheat 8, this is the second time that I have installed redheat 9 on this 
computer, i was trying to install SuSE via ftp and ended up giving up. But 
with the first install of RH9 they were not showing up on the boot up screen 
and I never even had looked at the logs. 
The drive is formated with ext3 on hda1 and hda2 with hda3 as a swap 
partition.

I am thinking that the drive is at fault and I am trying to prove otherwise.

Brian