5 Sep
2012
5 Sep
'12
2:12 p.m.
At 10:45 PM 9/4/2012, you wrote:
109 . [Fiction] "Tiger gotta hunt. Bird gotta
fly. Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
Tiger gotta sleep. Bird gotta land. Man gotta
tell himself he understand." --Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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spinrite for everything up to current technology -1 or
-2
for anything newer use HDD Regenerator
and I also recommend enabling SMART which is
built into the drive,and will tell you in
advance if the drive is starting to go
You should definitely turn on SMART in the BIOS
if supported. But that will only report impending
failure on boot-up-- I have machines with uptimes
exceeding 3 months (6-12 months for my linux machines) so that's no good.
There's a smartmon package for both *nix and
windows that can tell the drive to self-test
every night, and do the long self-test on say
Sunday night. SMART tests don't take the drive
offline and don't slow down access to the drive
(not so's you could tell, anyhow.)
Subject: Re:
Hard-drive diagnostic program
From: fraveydank at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 23:29:28 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
Will someone name a program that will do
"checkup" on a hard drive, that
could warn of an impending failure?
Well, there's Spin Rite, but I hear it is becoming increasingly less
relevant with newer disks. It also doesn't work with AHCI. If you are
using this for vintage IDE disks, neither of the above disclaimers should
matter.
- Dave