Catestrophic failure

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On 05/17/2005 07:14 PM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
> >> Thanks in advance. There are no logs to speak of (they were
> >> wiped with everything else).
> >
> >
> > Assuming that you've ruled out foul play, this screams hardware
> > failure. Either the disk(s) are going bad, or possibly RAM, or
> > even the CPU. Have you run a SMART check on the disks lately?
> >
> "SMART" check?

smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon
smartd  is  a  daemon  that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and
       Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many  ATA-3  and
later
       ATA,  IDE  and  SCSI-3 hard drives.

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