On 06/21/2013 09:24 AM, Lawrence Graves issued this missive:
On 06/21/2013 10:21 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 06/21/2013 11:17 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
Today, I am getting this message at boot time:
"Notice - HD self monitoring system has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential Hard. Press F1 to continue , F2 to enter setup"
Is there any reason to be worried about?
My computer is about 3 years old.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
For each drive on your system, try
sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdxwhere x=a,b,c,.... etc
If any indicate poor health, then use "--all" in place of -H
However, yeah, it's probably time to get a really good backup and price a replacement drive.
I recommend that you get a SSD drive. I use a Dell 9400 Inspiron and replaced my drive with a SSD 120g and haven't had anymore trouble.
If you use SSDs, make danged sure you back up really regularly to a standard drive. When an SSD dies, they tend to die quickly (like "Poof!") and you have virtually no grace time to get off what you can. I've had a number of Macbooks here at the office do that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror - - and you'd be on your own, pal! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------