Hi Frank,
It might be worth looking at the SmartmonTools suite.. allows you
to look at the drive's internal self-test logs, and should show up if the
disk is going to fall over...
Regards
Ewan
Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Frank Duignan wrote:
> I've got an ide disk that is showing a "short read" error on a sector. I
> don't simply want to format it and perhaps hide an underlying problem. I
> really would like to know whether this is an actual error or simply an after
> effect of a bad shutdown. Any suggestions?
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