OK. After upgrading my desktop to Fedora Core 3, the smartd daemon started spewing all kinds of interesting errors. It appears my 120GB Maxtor drive may be on the way out. Damned thing went out of warranty about 2 months ago and I haven't even filled it yet.
How many sectors should generate read failures during a long selftest? I'm up past 25 and counting at this point. I'm following the BadBlock Howto to get them out of the way in the hopes the drive will settle down and be good for a while. Every time I re-run the selftest it just coughs up another read failure on a new sector. Time to start shopping for a disk deal? --[Lance] -- Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
