Re: Kernel or failing harddisc?

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Tuesday 09 Nov 2004 11:07, Alan Cox wrote:
[snip]
>
> It could be anything. An interrupt went walkies which could easily be
> the driver, thermals, cabling, phase of the moon, drive,... If those are
> the only logged lines then the drive hasn't reported any problems back.
>
> Failed maxtors normally make it very clear they died - both in smart
> data (usually) and by spewing drive level errors.
>
> Alan

Thanks Alan, I'll look into it. Since I've not received any SMART warnings, 
I'll just assume the drive is fine and it's something else.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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