Re: disk failure: what to do?
From: Vilmos Soti (vilmos_at_vilmos.org)
Date: 08/28/03
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Date: 27 Aug 2003 18:59:23 -0700
mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård) writes:
> My year-old Western Digital WD800BB (80 GB) disk stopped working a few
I (and I know many others) stopped buying Western Digital due to
numerous failures.
> days ago. The machine had been running for about two weeks, when I
> started getting read errors on just about every sector on the disk.
> smartctl doesn't want to talk to the disk any more. In short, I can't
> read a single byte off the disk.
Make sure that the cables (also the power) are ok. Maybe you can
put the disk into another computer and see what it does.
Vilmos
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