Jeff > > > smart error on reboot. smart errors in windows 2000 hard drive is 3 wks > > old can only assume FC2 killed my Hard Disk. > > > any ides???? > > Maybe post some details of the errors to help diagnosis. It's not clear > what your problem is from the info you have given. > > > can smart be reset anyone know where some smart info is. > > Smart comes from inside the disk itself, so only a person able to repair > disks could reset it. > > > also it complaigns about the disc geom like the xp bug but I can still > > boot windows > > Have you tried running 3rd party SMART disk tools. Maybe windows is not > looking for errors? > > > HELP!!!!! > > Disks fail all the time, if you have an early failure count yourself > lucky, because the device should be in warranty. > > Don't say you didn't back up important stuff before trying to install a > new OS into a dual boot machine. > > -Cam > > Jeff, Perhaps looking in your mainboards bios helps. It's possible that you can disable the s.m.a.r.t. test..... this only effects the test of your mainboard!!!! I had a similar problem while updating from Redhat 8.0, suddenly i got s.m.a.r.t warnings from the bios after examining it turned out that the errors only occured during installation/upgrade of Fedora Core 2 I dissabled the test and all errormessages (as designed) dissapeared After further installation and booting i got by smartctl -a /dev/hda the following output: After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 20 b8 06 20 e0 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Timestamp Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --------- -------------------- c8 00 80 b8 06 20 e0 08 1439168.944 READ DMA c8 00 10 80 07 20 e0 08 1439168.752 READ DMA c8 00 08 b0 06 20 e0 08 1439168.752 READ DMA c8 00 68 30 06 20 e0 08 1439168.752 READ DMA c8 00 50 d8 05 20 e0 08 1439168.752 READ DMA etc etc etc I once had a MAXTOR hardisk with smarterrors, after running the utility "powermax" these errors were gone. and i never had any problems after this incident. Western Digital's tool is called "lifeguard" , but i dont have any experience with Western Digital If you examine the RMA procedure of samsung, there wil be a link for a test tool (they all have) DONT FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR DISK, the testtools MAY destroy all your data.... I still dont knowing wether the installation of Fedora Caused this problem ( I just upgraded my existing OS, without (or at least not knowing) upgrading something in the partition table) or this was caused by the load of the installation allthought this disk is just a year old and the load during installation will not be much greater as during "normal" use
