From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 22:25:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454DD16A401 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:25:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B3743D5C for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:25:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i1so1123768nzh for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:25:00 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HDvRMxcwK2UJwZQvtuZsK8tdkD11X8gytjfgsrmQ/m8yeheaKjJKqrueJlWPfNiO4Wg3HaYppiUny824qHXopGLrsdm9sYhvLDhRwKbME4WfY6tZ/9zm/L/7ojbPBCqlgveNZChZVi9FVvITmSaZHsx/3J8NzECHSOPQc7OiKjI= Received: by 10.36.221.43 with SMTP id t43mr3048139nzg; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:25:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.22.74 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:25:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:25:00 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont" In-Reply-To: <97be9bec0603251406t315de0c4g9fb37bf7efeeea59@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <97be9bec0603251406t315de0c4g9fb37bf7efeeea59@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange HD behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:25:02 -0000 On 3/26/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently (2 or 3 days ago) installed 6.1-BETA4 (from bootonly CD). T= he > installation process went on flawlessly. Then I left kdebase3 compiling (= and > its dependancies) overnight. But I woke up the next day to find the login > prompt and a few (2, i guess) messages of bad blocks somewhere in the /us= r > filesystem (just as a side note: I chose the automatic partitioning schem= e > after alocating some 15GB). > > So what bugs me is that my HD may be "dying" (or expiring, for that matte= r). > However, I never got any sort of bad block message while running Linux fo= r > more than 6 months, though I've certainly experienced some weird behaviou= r > not noticed by a friend o' mine who has the same distro (note: I used to = run > KDE 3.5.1 and he still run KDE 3.5.0). Besides, I installed 6.0 and I use= d > to get this very same behaviour a month or so ago. And even before that, = I > used run 5.3 (I got no error messages whatsoever). > > Is there an OS agnostic HD diagnose tool that's reliable? > > The HD is a Seagate one. > > -- > []'s, > Luiz Eduardo > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > Google for seatools and mhdd