Dieing hda? (was Re: [plug] "hdc: lost interrupt" - prob with 2.4.20 kernel)

[Craig Ringer]

> I was having similar problems with my Seagate 80Gb HDD. The other OS and 
> its 60GBs worth of partitions all appeared to be fine and then lilo died 
> this morning. It is an Intel Desktop Board and I am wondering if this 
> could be the problem, I have had this board for about a month with 1 
> Linux reinstall as it wouldn't boot one day cause the ext3 partition was 
> corrupted beyond repair. The drive is currently out waiting a possible 
> Ghost/Backup before anything else happens. I was told by a friend that 
> it is probably dieing. Any suggests would be really nice before I send 
> it back to Seagate to claim it on warranty.

smartctl -a /dev/hda
(replace hda with the appropriate disk device)

See if the drive knows it's dying... here's some normal output, though 
which vendor options are included will vary.

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