Re: Hard disk failure?

Well, I have been wrong a few times before, but jumping to conclusions
has stood me well over the years on average. I'm a semi-almost-nearly
retired broadcast engineer and a Certified Electronics Technician with
over 55 years of corraling electrons for a living. They never seem to
want you to fully retire when they *think* they might have to call me
in an emergency. So they sort of keep me on retainer or something. It
helps pay the medical insurance thats a bit hard to get when you're
past 70. :)

Let me know what the Seagate diagnostics thinks of it. I'm assuming of
course that the cabling is correct, as in this drive *is* on the end of
the cable, and not the middle connector, and that the longer section of
the cable is plugged into the motherboard, as either of those two
conditions not being met can bite you in a similar manner.

Good luck, and toss me a mail if thats it, or the drive itself is
toasted.

Hello again,

Thanks for the responses.

Last night I run SeaTools tool on the entire disk and did not find any
errors. I did a full test. I do not understand why this tool does not
tell anything about the SMART thing and the recorded errors I see with
smartctl :-(

Yes, I have a 40 GB drive on the middle of the cable and the 160 GB
drive is on the end. Today I am going to buy a new cable just to
discard the cable issue (I do not know if it makes sense). Also I am
going to measure disk input voltages just to verify everything is ok
on the power suppy.

I have another Debian Sarge on the 40GB drive that I use to backup the
first disk. I have booted from it and made a full system backup of my
Debian partition on the first disk.

This problem is very annoying because it happens some times. For
example, I did a full backup on the 40GB disk from my Debian partition
on the first disk without problems.

But sometimes, when I mount

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/harddisk1(on the second disk)

It refuses to mount and I get the disk unrecoverable errors. But
sometimes it just works fine. This is driving me nuts ;-)

I am lost on what to do.



Thank you very much in advance.
Ramiro.




Regards.

Ramiro,.

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