On Saturday 28 May 2005 02:07 pm, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 28.05.2005 schrieb Ashley M. Kirchner um 19:49: > > ...in fact, I have a brand new drive that just went in, and it shows > > pre-fails in its report. Manufactor date on the drive says Apr. 2005. > > Explain those pre-fails to me. > > Hm, according to "man 8 smartctl" I wasn't correct and a Pre-fail entry > isn't bad as long as the normalized value isn't less or equal to the > threshold. So reviewing your selftest output none of the Pre-fail or > Old_age registers seem to indicate a reason for sorrows. > > Maybe see too: http://aplawrence.com/Words/2005_01_23.html > > Alexander One thing to watch for is also temperature. As the drive warms they will recalibrate themselves...... Now wait a moment... Do you have a cdrom on the same channel?? I have had numerous problems with cdroms and hard drives on the same channel. -- John H Ludwig Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!! I'm not schitziod! I got better tomorrow.
