an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:44:13AM -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> Strange. Something else must have been wrong. Defective drive maybe?  

I doubt it, since smart tools don't report any immediate drive
problems, and since I noticed no drive/file system problems when I had
win98 on that box recently.

> Temporary network outage that caused the installer to get into some kind 
> of loop?

Maybe, but I doubt that too, since mail arrived to my server box
overnight, and the dsl modem didn't resync that night (it rarely does
anyway). So, if there was a network outage, I doubt it was on my end.

>
> I could send you a 13 or 15 Gb disk. I've got 4 drives in the 13 - 15 Gb  
> range that I was just going to throw in the trash. I'm not 100% sure any 
> of them are good but I'm guessing there is a linux utility for testing a 
> drive.

I've got a few still good older drives sitting here myself, but thanks
for the offer. Besides, I'm 95% sure this machine's bios has the 8g
size limit. As for your other statement, there seems to be a GNU/Linux
utility for pretty much anything these days, and drive testing isn't an
exception. Like I said, there definitely are tools for checking
SMART-enabled drives, and I'd be surprised if there were no utilities
for testing drives without SMART.

Greg


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