--- Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:28 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
now that i am done ranting. i have a question. I received this error today and i think it was today only so far, but the error is as follows.
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete
Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04Aborted Command
i did some googling and found some stuff...but
some
said go out and get another drive this one is
going to
hard drive heaven very soon... and other said it
could
be a software doing this and keep an eye on it.
then i
saw some say about a program called smartctl. is
this
a program that centos has...if not what is it and where is a good place to get it and is it worth running it?
i am running centos 3.5 120gig maxtor. with a 1.8 intel cpu 512 mem.
my initial reaction is one that favors my bias against Maxtor drives which would say to ditch the drive now.
man hdparm
man smartctl (though I would recommend hdparm as an easier interface)
Craig
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hello Craig,
why the bias against maxtor? in all the times i have had maxtor i have not had any problems. I thought western digital had the problems with hard ware slapping. where the read/write head would contact the platter and that was it for the drive, but that was many years ago. Have they cleaned up their act or should i say their drives. I will not touch IBM/Hiatchi i have had tooooooooooooooooooo many problems. right now it would be hard to convince the wife to spend money on the computer when i dont have a job now. :-(
Steven
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."