[mythtv-users] Recommended Disk Test
Saul
jaglover at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 23:02:02 UTC 2015
On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:56:14 -0500
John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why is everyone pointing to hard drive, the op stated that problems
> > dont happen all the time. The random freezing is caused by power
> > supply.
> >
>
> I say it could be the power supply but not always.
To initiate a HDD test run following:
smartctl -t long /dev/<yourdevice>
It will tell you how long it takes, do not disturb it, I have seen test
interrupted when running smartctl - /dev/<yourdevice>.
Afterwards I usually run
smartctl --all /dev/<yourdevice> | grep -e "Reallocated_Sector_Ct" -e
"Current_Pending_Sector" -e "Offline_Uncorrectable" -e
"UDMA_CRC_Error_Count" -e "Hardware_ECC_Recovered"
to get the most important readings.
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Cheers, Saul
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