hard disk failure

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

So far so good.
Make sure you ran dd against the WHOLE drive:
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null
ET 


Michael Havens writes: 

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:17 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>> Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
>> as root:
>> dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
>> Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than
>> "read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
>> ET 
>>
> 
> It finished with no error. The return was: 
> 
>      55285760+0 records in
>      55285760+0 records out 
> 
> Is that a good sign?
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-: