Re: [LUG] hdd recomendations

[Keith Abraham <keith.abraham@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:20, John Horne wrote:
> On 17-Jun-2002 at 19:55:36 Kai Hendry wrote:
> > All hard drives die, and I dislike when I see people cast blame on a
> > particular manufacturer. I say, buy a HD with best specs for the best
> > price. :)
> >
> > There are some "early warning" features on some HDs with SMART ability I
> > think is one.  I was wondering, has anyone got any use of these
> > features under Linux (or windows for that matter)?
>
> Not yet, but I see that redhat 7.3 has a SMART daemon starting at boot. I
> haven't looked into it yet, but I have enabled SMART on the drives.
>
> I use Seagate drives btw; had no problems with them at all :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John.
>
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I've got SMART enabled in the BIOS and I know when the drive is
going down because I can hear it "clunk" (RE Can't boot SuSE 8 form
the HD). I suspect that's it's attempt to inform an M$ OS of the
impending failure because I don't get a "clunk" if I disable SMART
in the BIOS.

Also there is a firmware upgrade for mpg3204at drives proir to 2001
but unfortunately only for Windows.DOS.

Any way I getting a new HD tomorrow.

Keith

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