failing drives or false positives

Mark LaPierre marklapier at aol.com
Thu Nov 22 21:29:04 UTC 2012


On 11/22/2012 03:04 PM, Brian West wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 12:58 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Brian West <bionicfreeze at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bionicfreeze at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi everyone
>>
>>     yesterday i began receiving messages from one  of my drives in my
>>     hard drive dock that it could be failing.  so i tested my
>>     notebooks drive and the docked drive in question both said tests
>>     completed without error both short and extended tests were
>>     performed is my drive really failing or is this a false positive.
>>      logs for each drive are below what really gets me is both of the
>>     drives give the exact same output for the most part should i be
>>     concerned?  Thanks in advance for your time.
>>
>>     Brian West
>>
>>
>> You did not append the error messages you say you are getting.
>> I too am having drive errors in the system log.
>> Interested in your log or error messages in /var/log/messages.
>>
>>
>>
> where do i locate the errors?
>
>

Didn't you say in your original post that, "yesterday i began receiving 
messages from one  of my drives in my hard drive dock that it could be 
failing."?  What are those messages?

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