--- Craig White <craigwhite at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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."