harddrive failing? how to test it?

[Chris Bier]

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hanasaki wrote:
| Any idea how to test a harddrive?  I have only Linux.  No MS
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| The below info is really concerning!  I have never seen this drive go
| over 32C.
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| Aug 23 11:51:02 server smartd[14738]:
| 	Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute:
| 	194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 145 to 139
| Aug 23 12:21:02 server smartd[14738]:
| 	Device: /dev/hda, 7 Offline uncorrectable sectors

You're on the right track.  Since it's obvious that your drive has SMART
already, you can use smarttools to get more information out of it.  It
looks like it might be over heating or unable to correct sectors.  These
are usually an indicator of a dying drive.  Linux Journal had a good
article on SMART about a year ago.

This should give you quite a lot of information.
smartctl -a /dev/hd?

Chris
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