hard drive going out?
George Toft
george at georgetoft.com
Tue Dec 31 09:05:56 MST 2013
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
Regards,
George Toft
On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound continues as if all was
> well. it doesn't even miss a beat.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I hsve my computer on and suddenly X crashes and on the screen
> there is:
>
> *Pulse Audio
>
> and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now this
> happened before and I think it had to do with the hard drive being
> bad. Does that sound right?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
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