From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QnAqZ-0002g9-9O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:48:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDC3E21C099; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B2821C051 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxi13 with SMTP id 13so3629935yxi.40 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TLaQFJTsrivrq6vwQJP5JWsBYkb2sTAV4ke6tNxg+xQ=; b=M+pTvh7Hewj5DyqTeuaYb1H36PMYt7VL4mFPqEEyiJEqZw2pks2kSxIwynFK3kF2V0 iRa5DxCVOmZ2lSWS6WeV3GwIqr8K3kZjVcfKA1kjXhRkfrwZolih/PYIZFyOieNowRSK ixAwouzMS1Yy0wU+Ei9Ik3vh26lGCxK/2zQ4E= Received: by 10.150.179.18 with SMTP id b18mr41980ybf.130.1312037269043; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-90-236.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm2137626yhn.81.2011.07.30.07.47.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E34198D.9030703@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:47:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <201107301104.37945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E33DA50.6090001@gmail.com> <201107301303.19667.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4E340F8A.60104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 052c88d7415d1aa1c4f5f218cb4d2471 Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale wrote: > >> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always >> - 0 >> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always >> - 0 >> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline >> - 0 >> > No bad sectors. At least, not that the drive controller knows about. > > You might try "smartctl -t offline $DEVICE_NODE" to have the drive run > a self-test. Don't let "offline" fool you; you can still do other > things, the test will just be suspended during disk activity, and > resume when disk activity dies down. > > I have ran that at least a couple times. It passed each time. I actually run that every couple months or so anyway. From what I have read, it does sometimes warn of a problems in time to take action. It may not help if it is a bearing failure or some other mechanical failure but some warning is better than none. At least I know it is living at the moment. I just hope it stays that way. Dale :-) :-)