Imminent disk failure: Serious warning or bug? In Ubuntu 9.10.

[Dustin Larmeir]

I don't know about your particular model, but on my external hard drive (
Seagate Freeagent) I was able to pull the casing off and all that was inside
was a standard sata drive - ref:
http://larmeir.com/2008/12/seagate-freeagent-500gb-external-usb-hard-drive/ 

You could probably do the same and test it directly from the controller on
your system. It'll take a bit of work but standard testing tools like
smartctl, hdparm and manufacturer tests will work. - Dustin

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Luis Maceira
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:27 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Imminent disk failure: Serious warning or bug? In Ubuntu 9.10.

 


Yesterday on Ubuntu 9.10 (completely updated) suddenly I received the 

warning "Imminent disk failure!",it seems was gdu-notifier(or so) that 

generated the warning.Unfortunately smartmontools does not do an 

effective monitoring/test on this disk Iomega Prestige mobile(not on 

smartmontools database etc.).When I run Solaris,Ubuntu9.04 from the 

same disk everything seems OK and I do not hear special noise or feel 

high temperature or read/write operations seem not normal.Besides 

the HDD has 1 month and Iomega drives are reliable.But running Ubuntu 

9.10 always that warning.So,this seems a bug but that warning we never 

know.Besides smartmontools,are there other ways to test the HDD?

(since I do not have installed Windows or Mac the Iomega tools are useless 

to me).Or,other way to get S.M.A.R.T. data from the drive?Right now,

I can analyze S.M.A.R.T data (after some reading about its attributes).

 

 

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