Server booting problems

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 10:33 -0600, compdoc wrote:
> If you've made no changes, it's possible your equipment is failing. To check
> if the hard drive is failing, boot the computer with the Desktop version of
> Ubuntu (can be any version like 14.04 or higher) and use the gnome disk
> utility to read the SMART information.
> 
> If the 'Value' column for any the following says anything other than '0
> sectors' you have a problem: 
> 
> Reallocated Sector Count
> Current Pending Sector Count
> Uncorrectable Sector Count
> Reallocation Count
> G-sense Error Rate

I have a drive where all those values are WAY more than zero, byt SMART
still reports the value (and the drive overall) as "OK".

Regards, K.

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