Failing drive?

[Lai Zit Seng]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, jludwig wrote:

> On Friday 27 May 2005 07:12 pm, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>     Someone with more knowledge about these things please tell me if I'm
>> looking at a failing drive, or something else.  SMART hasn't reported
>> anything on the drive (in fact, it thinks the drive is in perfect health
>> when I do a manual check.)
>>
>> ----------
> snip
> It,s feet aren't sticking straight up yet, but soon will be.
> I would only run the system/drive long enough to get your data off the drive.

I'd agree entirely. If your data is precious, immediately do a backup 
before anything else. Not even reboot. I've experienced several 
unfortunate cases where the drive seems to work ok inspite of the errors, 
and then I thought let's see if a reboot would clear the problem... and 
sadly, the drive didn't survive it.

Regards,

.lzs
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