Willie Wong wrote:
Is there anyway to tell if the
harddrive is failing in real time?
emerge smartmontools
man smartd
Benno
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Le lundi 28 février 2005 à 10:17 -0800, Justin Patrin a écrit :
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:30 -0500, Bill Roberts
If you hard disk is 90% full or better, it will be dog slow.
Yes, it is 90% full currently. I believe I still have the problem
when more is free, though.
Check it if
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago
(3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm
noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up
simple programs takes some waiting while the HD is accessed. During
large operations (say another
On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote:
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago
(3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm
noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up
simple programs takes some waiting while the
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago
(3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm
noticing *big* lags when doing anything HD related. Even starting up
simple programs
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:30 -0500, Bill Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09:39 Mon 28 Feb , Justin Patrin wrote:
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago
(3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm
noticing *big* lags when doing
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:23 -0800, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I originally installed Gentoo on my server box a very long time ago
(3-4 years I think) and it's still running strong. However, I'm
noticing
Does anyone have any tips for me?
FWIW, boot on my box, a K6-2, with gentoo on an ATA
drive complained that DMA was turned off and that this
would cause fsck to be very slow. I tried adding
hdparm something something as recommended in the
handbook but without success. Then I did emerge udev
On Monday 28 February 2005 19:18, Justin Patrin wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:01:23 -0800, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:30 -0800, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
hdparm /dev/hda (change as needed)
and you can check speed using
hdparm -tT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote:
Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I
said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and
slower lately.
If its 3 or 4 years old I would try replacing it.
(And dont buy Maxtor - they suck).
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, February 28, 2005 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote:
Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I
said, it used to work much better but it's been getting slower and
slower lately.
If its 3
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote:
I had a 40 GB Maxtor ATA drive in my server running Slack for a while,
then Gentoo. I had a similar problem with the drive getting slower and
slower all the time. Now it will read at less that 5MB / Sec, sometimes
under 1 with only 5% of the drive
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *SLOW* hard drive
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Justin Patrin wrote:
Already knew about that. It's set to the highest setting already. As I
said, it used
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
I find it odd how success with hardware brands varies from person to person.
Sometimes even from business to business
Over here, we run Maxtor Diamond Max drives, 7200rpm, 8meg cache, ata 133 in
just about everything. The
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:18, Willie Wong wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:56PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
You guys are really making me freak out about my Maxtor harddrive.
How exactly does SMART work? I had that working in one of the IBM
thinkpads before, but it only gave me warning
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