2009/1/29 Alex H. Vandenham <alex at avantel.ca>: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:15:38 am Anne Wilson wrote: >> I assume that the hdd is failing - but I haven't seen any messages >> from smartmontools. Is there any way I can check that? If it is I >> don't want to waste time trying to repair it. > > try smartctl to see what the monitors have been finding for you. > > man smartctl > Thanks. I'd been trying to remember what command I needed for that :-) The short test has completed without errors. I'll run the long test during dinner. Assuming that that also runs without errors, I guess that the next thing is memtest? More suggestions? Thanks Anne