[wplug] fsck running in background?

[Darius Cardren]

also, fordrive diagnostic, you may want to look at this project (and
it's linux/freedos based):

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com

It's got all manufacture's hd ustils conviently in one disk

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:13:18 -0400, Poyner, Brandon <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:
> For what it's worth I recommend running the smartmontools daemon
> (smartd).  It should give you a heads up that a drive is failing before
> you notice anything going wrong.  There have been countless times over
> the years that even a few hours notice before failure would've been
> beneficial.
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer II
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Harrold [mailto:jmh17 at pitt.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:48 AM
> To: General user list
> Subject: Re: [wplug] fsck running in background?
> 
> Sometime in September Poyner, Brandon assaulted the keyboard and
> produced:
> 
> | In my experience you RMA defective drives with the manufacturer,
> | assuming that you've had it more than a week.  They usually want you
> to
> | run their own diagnostic tool, usually boots off a DOS boot floppy or
> | runs on Windows, which typically does a SMART scan and gives you an
> | error code.  You then check the warranty status online, fill out the
> RMA
> | request specifying the error code, box it up and ship it out.  Then
> sit
> | tight for a few weeks.
> |
> | http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/rmainfo.asp?custtype=end&lang=en
> |
> |
> http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/serialinput.asp?custtype=end&requestt
> ype=warranty&lang=en
> 
> Oh yeah, It's still under warranty. I've only had it about a month, and
> it's under warranty till sometime in 2007. I went to wd's rma page
> before,
> but I didn't want to get an rma number till I was sure I wanted to
> return
> the drive.  I'm looking around at their diagnostic stuff right now.
> 
> http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp
> 
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