On Tue 30 May 2006 14:54, Ewan Oughton wrote:
> 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...
>
Does smartmon support SATA yet?
>>> 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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