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SATA 2: ST31000528AS CC38
Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status BAD
3rd slave Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace
Press F1 to Resume
Pressing F1 starts Ubuntu
Then I ran Fedora live USB with;
Code:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
to wipe out the complete hd (1TB in capacity)
on reboot, following warning popup
Code:
.....
SATA 1: ST31000528AS CC38
Ultra DMA Mode-6, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status BAD
....
....
3rd Master Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Statis BAD. Backup and Replace
Press F1 to Resume
Pressing F1 started Fedora17
-> install Fedora 17 using the complete HD. But complained
Code:
Automatic Prtitioning Errors
The following errors occurred with your partitioning.
Your / partition is less than 4096.0 MB which is lower than recommended for normal Fedora Live install.
This can hapen if there is not enough space on your hard drive(s) for the installation
Press OK to chose a different partioning option
[OK]
Please help. TIA
B.R.
satimis
Background story:-
I connected 2 HDs on this PC, the captioned HD, say HD1 and another HD, say HD2. HD2 is also installed with Ubuntu 12.04 deskop as host and Oracle VirtualBox as virtualizer. I started booting HD1 trying to copy the VMs from HD2 to it. HD1 also has Oracle VirtualBox installed. On HOME of HD1 I saw VMs being copied to it. But later the PC hanged for unknown reason. I pressed hard reboot then the mishap started.
All the VMs copied on HD1 were automatically removed for unknown reason.
Yes, the drive is failing, backup all data from that drive if you have any on there and replace the drive.
This HD has been purchased for sometimes but not being used, only resting on the shelves.
I don't know whether copying VMs between HDs direct on the same PC is the cause of the HD failure. I have purchased a new WD 2TB Black Label HD. But I would copy VMs to an external HD first and then recopy them to the new HD.
That the error ocured while copying large data files (the VM hard disks) onto it is a symptom, not the cause. If you copy large amounts of data onto a drive that has already failing sectors the drive's electronic will become aware of those sectors that it weren't recognizing as failing before. The disk has to use the sector to be able to determine its status. Copying the data onto it has not caused the failure.
By the way, the drive is not aware from where the data comes that is written on it. So copying the VM's to an external disk just to copy them back to the internal disk is nothing than a waste of time, except I have misunderstood that and you were talking about taking a backup.
That the error ocured while copying large data files (the VM hard disks) onto it is a symptom, not the cause. If you copy large amounts of data onto a drive that has already failing sectors the drive's electronic will become aware of those sectors that it weren't recognizing as failing before. The disk has to use the sector to be able to determine its status. Copying the data onto it has not caused the failure.
Thanks for your advice.
Quote:
By the way, the drive is not aware from where the data comes that is written on it. So copying the VM's to an external disk just to copy them back to the internal disk is nothing than a waste of time, except I have misunderstood that and you were talking about taking a backup.
I do agree that this arrangement will waste lot of time because copying large data files. I'll copy them direct PC to PC via ssh.
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