Re: Disk smart problem. Dual boot with 10.3 RC1 and Win 2K

John Bowling wrote:

John Bowling wrote:

John Bowling wrote:

I had run Win 2K and rebooted into RC1 and it popped up a warning saying
that your disk is failing with 633 errors in smart.

This is a 2 disk system, openSUSE 10.3 RC1 on a 250G under a year old
and Win 2K on a 20G drive that is old, so I am assuming that is the
failing disk.

Does anyone know where there is a log file or message file that might
tell
me more? The feature of checking smart appears to be something new with
10.3, but it doesn't give enough details to let you correct the problem.

Which disk is actually failing?

I am backing up the win data, and I'm going to check with the UBCD to
see if any of the disk utilities can tell me what is wrong with the
smart flags.

Thanks, John

I just ran the quick test diagnostics for both drives and they passed.
When I rebooted the error did not show up.

Could be a drive starting to go bad.
John

Further update:
in /var/log/warn, which has several lines like the following:

Sep 24 01:18:48 linux-jlbw smartd[9033]: Device: /dev/sdb, 652 Currently
unreadable (pending) sectors

That is the 250G newer drive

John

Could the summer high demand for electricity be lowering your house power to
where it causes fluctuations in your computer? I find that at high power
demand times, all sorts of quirky things happen in the computer. Also with
a 20GB hard drive in your system I believe it is an older computer.
Perhaps your newer, beefier hard drive is barely within the trigger levels
of your system.

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