On Mon, 14 May 2007 01:57:17 -0400, Bob Brown INC.
<sillyspammers (AT) bots (DOT) dumb> wrote:


Can you use the DOS version?

Floppy
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/SeaToolsDOS.exe
ISO/CD
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/SeaToolsDOS.iso

On Mon, 14 May 2007 04:39:46 -0400, kony <spam (AT) spam (DOT) com> Let everyone
including the NSAs Internet database storage program know as they
typed on their keyboard faster than a monkey on crack the following:

I used the ISO CD version, did the LONG test, took a LONG time, close
to 1 hour or more. Found no errors. Considering the noises, that test
is a piece of shit, sorry for lang.

In message <h5gi43d2g850krbj7bdbq7egh4linu6ck1 (AT) bbb (DOT) org> Bob Brown INC.
<sillyspammers (AT) bots (DOT) dumb> wrote:

No, you're misunderstanding what the test can and cannot report.

All the diagnostics can tell you is that as of this moment, the drive is
working fine. Combine that with some history of the drive (as known to
SMART) and you may or may not be able to spot a problem from software.

Generally unusual noise is a bad sign, but it doesn't *always* mean
eminent doom.

I have a drive in service here which has made a clicking sound for over
a year. I've kept it around as an online backup of my portable drive,
in case I lose or damage my portable drive at some point.

It's identical twin, serial numbers common through all but the last
digit, makes no such clicking. Together they make a nice RAID-1 array.

The data can be recovered fairly easily, in under two hours (most of
which just needs me to be present to swap DVDs) assuming a failure of
both drives in the array AND my removable drive simultaneously.

I'm keeping clicky around until 1) it dies, or 2) the five year warranty
gets closer to expiring, since many manufacturers have a habit of
sending much larger drives back if you send in a long-since-discontinued
drive, or 3) It's brother dies, in which case I'll RMA them both.

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be born in utter poverty and end up a rich white man?
Only in America!

On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:07:09 -0400, Bob Brown INC.
<sillyspammers (AT) bots (DOT) dumb> wrote:

How did you get the disgnostic info you show in that weblink?
My computer shows it has SMART, but I never knew it can make a graph
or give out diagnostic info. In fact I really never knew what it did.
I thought it just posted an error notice upon bootup or something, if
a drive is bad. What's the procedure to get the graph and diag. info?

Thanks
George

On Fri, 18 May 2007 03:03:34 -0500, george41407 (AT) neomail (DOT) com , A non
coffee lover Said:

Use SPEEDFAN, has a tab for SMART and allows a diagnose and then it
loads a page with the values, makes those pretty charts etc.

google speedfan , no spaces