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True, but I had a live chat with their technician and there wasn't much he could offer outside of Windows.<div><br></div><div>Jon<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:34:12 +0800<br>From: michael@hybr.id.au<br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan<br><br>Gnome/Palimpsest Disk Utility is good. I haven't used it for a while but from memory you don't need to unmount the disks to check them.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_Disk_Utility" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_Disk_Utility</a><br>
<br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Fred Janon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fjanon@yahoo.com">fjanon@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"><font face="arial" size="2">Check the Hitachi web site, if I remember correctly their utility works for all drives, except for some </font><font face="arial" size="2">proprietary commands. I think they run from a floppy or CD too. Sorry, it has been a long time since I last checked.</font><div>
<font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">Seagate used to have tools that don't require Windows too.<br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">Fred<br>
--- On </font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial">Fri, 6/17/11, Jon Miller <i style="font-weight:bold"><<a href="mailto:jonl711@hotmail.com">jonl711@hotmail.com</a>></i></span><font face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br>
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<br>Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan<br></div>To: "Perth Linux User Group" <<a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a>><br>Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 7:21 AM<div><div></div><div class="h5">
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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>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:39:20 +0800<br>From: <a href="mailto:james@rcpt.to">james@rcpt.to</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a><br>
CC: <a href="mailto:jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au">jlmiller@mmtnetworks.com.au</a><br>Subject: Re: [plug] HDD scan<br><br>
On 16/06/2011 4:36 PM, Jon L Miller wrote:
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<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><BR>
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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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