From: solsTiCe d'H. <sol...@gm...> - 2007-12-30 16:46:23
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hi. my old pc was giving strange sign like freezing (under linux or windows). When i was hot rebooting the PC, the BIOS did not even see sometimes the hdd. I had to shut it down completly to do a cold boot. and then the BIOS see the hdd again. so i tested the hdd on another pc. it seemed to worked. i remounted on the orignal pc. it seems to work quite well. i made test like smartctl -s on /dev/hda smartctl -t short /dev/hda smartctl -t long /dev/hda and it passed every time then i decided to run captive mode test (from a knoppix Live CD) smartctl -t short -C /dev/hda it passed then smartctl -t long -C /dev/hda and when i tried to run smartctl -t selftest /dev/hda it made noise like clong clong well during the long test i run prematurally (before the end of the test) smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda, and it gave an error. so i waited the end of the test and now even after a reboot, it made that noise as if it can't power up (the hdd) or i don't know. a head is dead ? the Bios can't find it and it seems definitvly dead. the hdd is an ExcelStor J360 on a Asrock K2VT2 motherboard with a via chipset. |
From: solsTiCe d'H. <sol...@gm...> - 2007-12-30 17:13:22
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the noise is cyclic, always the same trying to do something so my guess is : the hdd power up then power down, power up then power down, |