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The problem is the drive has some errors that prevents it from booting up so I get GRUB error 17 and upon further investigation found that the drive is reporting: <div>sda: Current: Sense key: Medium error<div> Additional Sense: Unrecovered read error</div><div> Info fld=0xa2</div><div>end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 162</div><div>Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 81</div><div><br></div><div>It's a Seagate ST318406LW 18GB SCSI drive and Seagate does not have any tools that run from Linux only on Windows. I'm hoping I can find a utility that can check the drive in Linux or from a boot CD and mark the bad blocks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regard,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:39:20 +0800<br>From: james@rcpt.to<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>CC: jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au<br>Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan<br><br>
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On 16/06/2011 4:36 PM, Jon L Miller wrote:
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Can anyone
recommend a good hdd scanning software to check
for hard drive conditions, while server is up?</span></font></p>
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I'd suggest smartmontools as a start:<br>
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<blockquote>Description: control and monitor storage systems using
S.M.A.R.T.<br>
The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl
and smartd)<br>
to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring,
Analysis and<br>
Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern
ATA and SCSI<br>
hard disks. It is derived from the smartsuite package, and
includes support<br>
for ATA/ATAPI-5 disks. It should run on any modern Linux system.<br>
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