[TriLUG] Hard drive DMA failures: hardware or something else?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> I'm guessing this is hardware, and I shoudl go buy a new hard drive.

likely. Is the drive out of warrantee?

run smartd on it (from smartmontools) to test. I have a cron 
job run the short test once a day, the the long test once a 
week and have it e-mail me the results. The tests can run 
while the disk is mounted. This will give you a bit of a 
warning if the disk is going.

Joe

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