Disk failure detected by Ubuntu.

[NoOp]

On 11/13/2009 01:04 AM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 23:11 -0600, Paul Tader wrote:
> [snip]
>> - Notebook BIOS didn't report anything.
>> - Windows didn't report anything (maybe if I could get to the event
>> viewer before it locked up)
>> - Ubuntu (using the Palimpsest utility) saw it right away and reported
>> it to the user.
> 
> I actually just recently had a very similar experience with a laptop we
> were fixing for a friend. It had vista on the laptop, and it had stared
> locking up and crashing (more than usual) along with general crap
> performance (worse than typical vista), and the laptop battery was dying
> really fast, and the laptop itself was unusually hot. I suspected
> hardware, as from the software side, everything looked normal... 
> 
> First thing I did when I got a hold of it was I stuck a karmic LiveCD in
> there, and sure enough the drive was going bad at a rapid pace. We
> managed to back up all his info just in time, as on the very next boot
> the hard drive got super-hot and started clicking. 
> 
> My personal opinion is that Palimpsest is probably one of the most
> useful additions to ubuntu I've seen in a long while, and I can't wait
> to see what they follow up with!
> 

Just be aware of false positives:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libatasmart/+bug/438136
[palimpsest bad sectors false positive]
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility

But certainly worth checking out the drive with other (manufacturer?)
utilities as well.