Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-23 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
On 2003-03-03, I wrote: [Shaul Karl] If this is under warranty I would also try to claim for it. [Me] It's not. The person in the store was surprisingly nice, turns out it is on warranty after all, even though this is not written in the paper we got when buying. As far as I know modern

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?

2003-03-04 Thread Cedar Cox
What about S.M.A.R.T. for IDE HDs? I don't really know anything about it, but IIRC it's supposed to give early warning of disk failure.. -Cedar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the

RE: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?

2003-03-04 Thread Aviram Jenik
What about S.M.A.R.T. for IDE HDs? I don't really know anything about it, but IIRC it's supposed to give early warning of disk failure.. There's a nice SMART tool for Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite/ Haven't tried it myself, but I heard good things. - Aviram

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-03 Thread Eli Marmor
Beni Cherniavsky wrote: I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-03 Thread Alon Altman
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I perform a daily mirror (in a cron job) via rsync of all my

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-03 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:46:23PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: In addition, don't under estimate the option to return it directly to the manufacturer if there is one. This would probably lead you to verify your suspicion for a broken HD by using the manufacturer tools. Just to

Re: [OT] new hardisk advice (was: What's short read error?)

2003-03-03 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:24:38PM +0200, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: On 2003-03-03, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: Yesterday my linux hang so that I had to reset it, then fsck failed and hang and then the partiotion table got broken :-(. It seems that there is a physical problem with the drive,