[clue-tech] Re: kernel drivers (linux kernel: hde: drive_cmd:

Hex Star hexstar at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 16:49:52 MST 2006


Running long SMART test on 300GB HD via smartctl -t long -l selftest
/dev/hde , says it'll take 2 hours so I'll give it the time and will
post back the results (hope it passes!)

On 1/4/06, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really, the IDE cable in use came with the 300GB HD and the 300GB HD is
> new, any possibility that these errors could be ignored and may be false
> positives caused by some incompatible commands being sent to the ATA
> controller/HD or something like that? IMO it may be a possibility since fsck
> and S.M.A.R.T. didn't find any issues and fsck does tend to be quite
> thorough with it's testing....will run a long SMART test though when I get
> home to see if anything unusual comes up
>
>
>
> On 1/4/06, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
> > Hex Star wrote:
> >
> > >but the weird part is these errors are coming from hdf too, both
> > >connected to the ata controller and I don't beieve that drive is at
> > >all corrupted, so do you think this could be caused by some minor
> > >incompatibilities with suse and the controller card (perhaps
> > >incompatible commands?) and thus it can be ignored
> > >
> > >
> > Any reason you'd suspect the cables?  I just say that because they're
> > easier to replace.  If you're having a problem with the controller, I
> > guess you'll have to replace the motherboard.
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