[TriLUG] HD Diags

[Mike Parkhurst]

Whitebox, I recently put it together with parts I had laying around.  I 
know how to fix it, check/replace the cable and if I keep getting errors 
replace the HD and reinstall Debian.  Also, I didn't have a spare FD for 
the system and most vendors require one to to run diags.

Here's what's really bugging me.  Years ago, during the BBS days, I 
downloaded a vendor diag disk.  It was really cool as it ran on (almost) 
any IDE hard drive, and reported alot of information, including CRC 
errors which generally go unnoticed.  I foolishly assumed that that 
program would be available forever and lost track of the boot disk I had 
made.  Now the diags for most companies are very generic, some times 
even either everything is OK or call customer service.  I was hoping 
that there was something in Linux that would be similar to that old diag 
program.

Mike

kevin wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:24, Mike Parkhurst wrote:
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>Mike,
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>	How about some info on the system?  Whitebox? Name Brand desktop? Name
>Brand Server?
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>If it's a name brand anything there should be some vendor diags that you
>can get, hopefully the non destructive kind.....
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>Kevin
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>>All of a sudden I'm getting alot of these messages in my logs and 
>>timeouts while reading files.
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>>Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { 
>>DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
>>Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { 
>>UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8650304, sector=8393264
>>Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 
>>(hda), sector 8393264
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>>Is there any way to do disk diagnostics in linux?  It seems that the 
>>disk is checked during install and I should be able to do whatever the 
>>installer does from the command line.
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>>Thanks,
>>Mike
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