Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:28 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
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
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)
Maxtor isn't quite as bad as Micropolis was. I was in the process of finding out who to bribe in France so that their next nuclear test would be upwind of Singapore when they went bankrupt. I bought twenty four drives and not one lasted more than a month. Special "video rated" 4.5GB SCSI drives too. May their goats give them all VD.
Enough ranting - get rid of the drive now before it dies. At a minimum, do a full backup and nightly incrementals. I recommend bacula if you have a second linux system.