[ILUG] disk error checking

[Ewan Oughton]

Yes. I use it on my SATA disks at home - DiamondMax Plus9s connected to an 
Sil3112.



Regards


Ewan



Ewan Oughton B.Sc. Comp Sys
DB / AnonFTP / Orac Root Admin SkyNet


On Tue, 30 May 2006, John Allen wrote:

> 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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