<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><P>Yesterday on Ubuntu 9.10 (completely updated) suddenly I received the </P><P>warning "Imminent disk failure!",it seems was gdu-notifier(or so) that </P><P>generated the warning.Unfortunately smartmontools does not do an </P><P>effective monitoring/test on this disk Iomega Prestige mobile(not on </P><P>smartmontools database etc.).When I run Solaris,Ubuntu9.04 from the </P><P>same disk everything seems OK and I do not hear special noise or feel </P><P>high temperature or read/write operations seem not normal.Besides </P><P>the HDD has 1 month and Iomega drives are reliable.But running Ubuntu </P><P>9.10 always that warning.So,this seems a bug but that warning we never </P><P>know.Besides smartmontools,are there other ways to test the HDD?</P><P>(since I do not have installed Windows or Mac the Iomega tools are useless </P><P>to me).Or,other way to get
S.M.A.R.T. data from the drive?Right now,</P><P>I can analyze S.M.A.R.T data (after some reading about its attributes).<BR></P><P><BR></P><BR></td></tr></table><br>