Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 15:11, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in De

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life > > > of a hard drive? > > > Is it coughing b

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 20:24, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I >>> feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large >>> files than it did before.

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: >> I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are none. But somehow I >> feel (cannot prove) that it is taking up a lot of time to write large >> files than it did before. That is why I think the hard drive could be >> dying. > > Is it coughing blood? Faint heartbeat? H

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life > > of a hard drive? > Is it coughing blood? Faint heartbeat? High/fluttering blood > pressure? Blue lips? > > --

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you have good hearing and have heard a hard drive spin up and work for quite awhile then suddenly it sounds like someone is rolling marbles around on the inside of the hard drive your hard drive is on its way south. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Angus Auld
--- Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: > > > Is there any tool available in Debian which can > tell the remaining > > life of a > > hard drive? Also, what log files should one >

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What ar

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a > hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is > something wrong with the hard drive? What are the

[OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Also, what log files should one monitor to see if there is something wrong with the hard drive? What are the various error messages I should look out for? I checked the hard drive for badblocks and there are n