From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G9AUd-0003rT-Rc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:58:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k750uBHx025753; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:56:11 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k750rrou013573 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:53:53 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x66so295959pye for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:53:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Xd+nYZ01RJxSlCfjqTBKBHUMXvP+zXMfaqGpMgBThVRtoxuAzUZ8AG2TqvNvnEfV5Oc+tsps8Qa42V+VGbbSxxj6WAyLpSuWljriLqMVF4+YCsHnERowgEtpS+m6Fm1ylLZM+81pM4ZMGRNyQmBJQBSFx2fFXMGRkdHDuURJBso= Received: by 10.35.99.5 with SMTP id b5mr6127872pym; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.101? ( [68.149.191.25]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id n40sm532762pyg.2006.08.04.17.53.52; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44D3EC23.5090406@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:53:55 -0600 From: Daniel Huckstep User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives References: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D0F5681@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local> <20060804140030.GH24474@jaquet.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060804140030.GH24474@jaquet.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 26c3f129-d076-4f55-a25d-472ffa4d6d64 X-Archives-Hash: b362b8ff0f99d2c1edb2fde04ea417db Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > >> if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are >> SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has >> not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it. >> > > Use a livecd/knoppix thing and run badblocks(8) on them. > > Cheers, > Rasmus > I vote for the Ultimate Boot CD. small download (i think) and it has pretty much every hard drive tool on it, so you can rum the appropriate manufacturer's tools and figure out if they are dead, and also low level format the drives for a complete fresh start. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list