[vox-tech] Hard drive dying?

[Alex Mandel]

Tony Cratz wrote:
> Bill Kendrick wrote:
>> I was tapping away in OpenOffice.org when all of a sudden X locked up.
>> I switched over to a VT to see if something was eating CPU or somesuch,
>> and was presented with a variety of error messages regarding my hard drive!
>>
>>
>> I just captured a few more from /var/log/syslog:
>>
> 
> 
> 	I know there is a program which will allow you took at the drive
> 	bios stats. You might 'ask' the drive what the problem is by
> 	getting it's stats. The error rate may be climbing.
> 
> 
> 							Tony

smartctl

Alex