[ale] harddrive errors

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 11:22 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> James P. Kinney III said:
> > 1. Did you replace the IDE cable with a brand new, un-mangled one? IDE
> > cables have very fine wires that can't take being bent around much. The
> > 80 wire cables are quite fragile. They feel stiff mostly because of the
> > insulation. I believe the wire inside are around 30 gauge.
> 
> Ok...the IDE cable does appear a bit mangled, so I'm going to replace. 
> Power supply (350W) should be adequate.
> 
> After replacing the cable, how can I stress test it to see if any more
> errors occur?

Boot from a CD or floppy like Toms RootBoot or Knoppix. Generate a large
file (if you use Knoppix, copy the compressed image file to the hard
drive) and make another copy of it from the hard drive file. This will
force the system to do both reads and writes and exercise the head
motion with lots of Seeks. While you do this, have a shell open tailing
the systemlog file.
> 
> Thanks!
> John
> 
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