Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dale
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 >> >> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This >>> seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by t

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 > > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company > > as Maxtor I wonder? > > I'v

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company > as Maxtor I wonder? I've been told Hitachi bought up IBM's drive manufacturing operati

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > > > It's about time I made a back up of this machine anyway. > > Thanks for your help. > LOL. I make a back-up of mine too. It never hurts to be safe. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, I'll browse through these. > > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as > Maxtor I wonder? > > I have been getting these

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll browse through these. > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company as Maxtor I wonder? I have been getting these errors for some time now. They pass the tests tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > >> > >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of > >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a > >> very similar error. My Western Di

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > >> >> I get those a lot too. I have a question, can you post the output of >> hdparm -i /dev/hda . I have two Maxtor drives and both of mine gives a >> very similar error. My Western Digital doesn't have any errors at all. >> >> Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I > > can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other > > day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors > > occurred when I f

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread b.n.
Mick ha scritto: > This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't > understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The > machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I > forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB d

Re: [gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't > understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The > machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I > forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver

[gentoo-user] smartd Prefailure messages

2007-12-20 Thread Mick
This has been going on for some time, but nothing has yet gone bang! I can't understand what the errors mean. They seem to occur every other day. The machine is a laptop. Also I am not sure if these errors occurred when I forced a reboot a few times when a WiFi USB driver crashed and locked