Wayne
Many thanks for your help it is much appreciated.
On 2006.03.03 23:06, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:11 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
to get a full drive status and test results...if you can't make sense of them then post the results here.
Results below.
Looks to be shot I am afraid, however your drive has warranty until this time next year so I'd copy your system over to another drive and get that one sent away on a RMA request.
The logged errors are showing as external interface errors, but the internal self test failed at block 49372246. Usually this means that the drive has so many bad sectors that it cannot remap any more..currently your drive thinks it has remapped 208 sectors.
You'd probably find that if you ran badblocks on it (be very very careful with badblocks some of the options will overwrite all the data in a particularly unrecoverable way) you would find some bad sectors scattered all over it....Check your backups and replace it ASAP is my advice.
Badblocks had got up to 1700+ bad blocks when I finally stopped it. This, incidentally, appears to affect only one partition.
One more thing..for a 7200 RPM drive I would say that 51 degrees is a little on the warm side...Even my music server which is in a really poorly vented NAS box case with no fans other than a sub miniature case fan has a 7200 RPM drive that has never been over about 42C
Whether this has caused the failure (through bad case ventilation) or is a symptom of the failure I am not sure...I would check the temp of the other drive though. If that is equally high then I'd consider a case fan. On a standard ATX case there is sometimes a place for a fan in front of the drive bays..put a fan to suck air in on this position...if there isn't a space there then put in a rear fan (which should be set to blow air out).
One thing that I'm really good at is forgetting - in fact I would say I'm a 'Master' on that subject.
I have only just realised that this problem coincides with the fitting of a hard drive silencing kit. Removing that from the drive reduces the temperature to 21 degrees. The case cooling is fine. It has one fan at the front and one at the back and both are 120mm. CPU temperatures are also fine.
The silencing kit and the drive came from the same retailer so I shall tackle them about it. It certainly appears that the silencing kit has caused the overheating and damage.
I already have a duplicate drive in the case which is mirroring the working drive and I booted from the mirror drive yesterday to test it and it all works. I shall be swapping that as the working drive and the faulty one can go back with the silencing kit.
Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain