[conspire] 3rd Master Hard Disk Error

[paulz at ieee.org]

 I have identified the problem.
First, I used the BIOS setup to find the models of the disk drives.   

IDE  Seagate 120GBIDE  WD        200 GB
SATA1    Seagate 1000GBSATA2   
SATA3    DVD drive.

Next, following Rick's suggestion, I went to Seagate and WD websites.  Each had tools for Windows, MAC and stand alone.  One company's standalone tool said it only worked if disk was formatted FAT32.

This time, dual boot was helpful.  I booted Win7 and downloaded SeagateTools, and Western Digital Life Guard. The windows install was uneventful.   I launched the Seagate Tools; nothing happened.   I launched the WD tools.  After just a few seconds there was a table of results.  It listed all of the drives, even a USB dongle.The old IDE drives pass.  The SATA 1GB Seagate failed. 

Reallocated SectorCount Value 3, Threshold 36, Worst 3

>From the many other entries I think possibly this means there are only 3 spare sectors left to re-allocate.




    On Sunday, November 18, 2018, 10:42:47 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
 
 Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):  I 

>  in /var/log/messages
> 
> * `grep -v scsi` returns nothing.
> 
> * Several pairs of messages like the following:
> 
> messages.1:Nov 11 22:26:15 PZ01 org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[1283]: disc.c:352: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv
> messages.1:Nov 11 22:26:15 PZ01 org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[1283]: disc.c:352: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv

Well, that _could_ be a sign of a failing drive, but my offhand
impression is that's really thin in the context of the BIOS raising an
alarm during POST.  It doesn't seem to match.

> Devices are indeed listed as /dev/sda  /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc.
> Sizes are "roughly"100 GB, 200DB and 900 GB, which gives some clue as to how old they are.
> 
> I'm thinking that once I get the box open, it might be time to buy a new TB drive,  I had been thinking it was time to reinstall the OS anyway.  If /usr/bin is on a drive with SSD buffer, everything will run much faster.

If during diagnosis you isolate peoblem cause to a specific physical
drive device, don't hasten to throw it away without some further steps.
Specifically, each manufacturer (Samsung, Western Digital, Seagate,
etc.) offers for download diagnostic and repair software that in many
cases can massage an old drive into like-new condition.  Look around and
find (and use) the one for your device.  Example:
https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/


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