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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hard drive failures usually have sound
associated with them - a new brrr brrr brrr coming from the drive,
and errors in /var/log/messages. man smartctl is your friend.
You'll run something like smartctl -i /dev/sda<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
George Toft
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On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound
continues as if all was well. it doesn't even miss a beat.</div>
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and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now
this happened before and I think it had to do with the
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