On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You don't have to take smartd's word about the health of your drive. > Run the manufacturer's diagnostic. May not make a difference. I'm not sure about all manufacturers, but on many consumer level drives the manufacturer software just checks smart, like on my 500GB segate that's been RMA'd 3 times so far (on fourth drive). I would recommend running a tool like MHDD which is available as a part of System Rescue CD. It will scan all your sectors and try to read the data off bad sectors if possible. I actually disected a System Rescue CD and pulled the parts off of it I wanted and have grub boot options on all my PCs. (Memtest, MHDD, System Rescue CD) Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
