[Discuss] Fedora 8 and new system works straight out of the box.

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> R. Langkamer wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I would add, that the built-in smart status reporting inside 
>> bios' and OS' is in adequate. Compile/install the recent smart tools 
>> and use that to get a real report.
>>     I have a client on a (now) older G5 PowerMac. The internal hard 
>> drive that came with the computer is a SATA 160GB and I discovered, 
>> through the use of smart tools, that the drive was failing. The 
>> information reported by Disk Utility (Apple's disk management 
>> software), only said "verified" which is the same as an "overall" 
>> smart status report will say even though the actual short and long 
>> tests failed to complete. In short, the drive was failing and only 
>> smart tools was able to provide clear and accurate information 
>> detailing as such.
>>
>>     For the benefit of others, don't trust what the bios or the OS 
>> say, trust the correct tool. :)
>>
> Could you provide a link for these tools?  Thanks.
>
I don't know if this is what R. Langkamer had in mind but the Ultimate 
Boot Disk has a number of HD Diagnostic tools provided by the various HD 
manufactures.  I ran the one for Western Digital drives and the quick 
test (5 minutes ) gave my disk the all clear, so hopefully my problem 
was just a few bad sectors and not a failing HD.  Most HD's have bad 
sectors when manufactured that are then bypassed by the controller at 
the factory.  In the old days (here I go again) it was fairly common for 
HD's to be sold with bad sectors showing up throughout their lives.  But 
as I said before I haven't seen one like that for years.

John


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