thor_consulting@yahoo.com wrote:
> sure...
>
> WD: they go offline for no reason and never come back but they are still
> spinning
> IBM: they go offline for no reason and never come back but i hear the click
> and spin-down
> others: similar problems as well as varying degrees of longevity and noise
>
> before you ask:
> APM is disabled in BIOS and i have experienced this with several different
> power supplies
>
> thor
Find UCSC SmartSuite packaged for your distribution. Debian users can
apt-get install smartsuite. Then try smartsuite against your ATA device
to query the SMART settings:
smartsuite -a /dev/hda
Smartsuite also allows you to tell the drive to enter various testing
modes, everything from brief online tests to lengthy offline tests
(where the drive is unavailable to access for the duration).
Honestly, if your drives are making noises, transfer whatever data off
the drive that you can and REPLACE IT. RAID 1 mirroring or RAID 5
striping is always a good idea with cheap IDE drives... they simply
don't have the life they once did, longevity appears to be inversely
proportional to the increased density.
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