Hard Drive Diagnostics
Theresa L. Ford
t at cattail.nu
Tue Dec 16 19:42:06 PST 2003
What commands/utilities are needed for exploring, defining, and
recovering data on a failing hard drive? What should I look for in
which log file?
I had a dual boot Redhat Linux/Windows 2000 setup with two hard drives,
variously partitioned with ext3fs, fat32, and possibly ntfs.
After determining that the increasingly frequent locking/rebooting
problem was likely one of the drives, we disconnected those and
purchased a new drive and installed FreeBSD (translate FreeBSD newbie).
There were no issues beyond typical newbie trying to install FreeBSD.
I have done all the upgrades/cvsup.
FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Dec 15 18:11:37 EST 2003
The two drives:
80 Gb Maxtor D740X-6L
Western Digital 120 Gb.
I saw in the archive that this could be a cable problem, but the BSD
drive has now operated successfully on both cables (more general
troubleshooting). What tools do I need to research? What should I look
for in my logs?
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
- Theresa
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