> Well, I didn't say that it has caused h/w problems. I only said that > it may have caused problems. Even if it did, it may not show up > immediately. It may cause a shortening of disk life, which is not > immediately apparent. Sudden disk power downs are always very > traumatic. @gokul OMG OMG!!!you make me nerveous!!
> Just in case you want to know the health of your Hard drive, you can > use SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). In > Gnu/Linux, it is made available using smartmontools package. I can > give more details if you are interested. @gokul i ran SMART and i was not smart enough to decode the output.Please spare some time analysing the text that follows((Man do it.. ITS my HARDDISk :) )) smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 107145378 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 095 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3285 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 084 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 272486406 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 3355 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3365 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 059 048 045 Old_age Always - 41 (Lifetime Min/Max 27/41) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 041 052 000 Old_age Always - 41 (0 25 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 070 046 000 Old_age Always - 190554089 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
