[nmglug] smartd errors??

[Tim Emerick]

It's pretty hot actually.  In an old HP low profile type desktop case. 
Apparently Maxtor has a utility called PowerMax to analyze the disk that I'm
going to run.  After some extensive tests, it will return a code that tells
me if the drive is damaged or not.

Thanks for the insight on the heat problem though.  I might buy one of those
HD coolers I've been eyeballing at compusa...just for fun ya know.  Yeah, I
know.  I'm a wild and crazy guy.

Tim

--- Karl Hegbloom <karlheg at laclinux.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:20 -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> > Has anybody ever experienced smartd errors?  If so, what did you do?
> > 
> > I have a new 200GB hard drive that seems to be throwing errors.  Probably
> > under warranty.
> 
> I think that if it's under warranty, you should probably have it
> replaced.  It looks like it has some bad sectors.
> 
> ? How hot is it?  I've had drive problems that would happen only after
> it got hot.  When I made more space around the drive, it cooled down,
> and it has worked fine ever since.  I think that the high capacity
> drives have more heating problems --- they run hotter.  Also, since the
> data is denser, they are likely more susceptible to heat-expansion
> related errors.
> 
> 
> 
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