Detecting IDE errors...?

[Sunner]

Does anyone know of any programs that will let you monitor errors on the IDE bus?
Failed CRC's and such.

My computer is acting up a bit, and Im beginning to suspect the IDE cabling.

 

[RalfHutter]

If you're using Win2000 or WinXP it will show up in the Event Viewer ("Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Event Viewer" or some other path of your choice). I've used this to confirm bad IDE cables myself.

 

[Sunner]

Ah, thanks, didn't find any errors, but good to know 🙂

 

[stevewm]

If Windows 2000 or XP see any CRC errors the device experiencing the errors will be immediately put in PIO Mode 4 and the error logged in Event Viewer. The only way to reset this is to remove the drive from Device Manager and let Windows re-install it.

So unless this occurs then your not having IDE error problems 😀

 

[Nothinman]

You should also be able to find a utility to read the S.M.A.R.T data from the IDE drives.

#smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.1-11 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: SEAGATE ST318451LW Version: 0003
Serial number: 3CC0NYDR00007149L78E
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sun Jun 1 19:55:30 2003 EDT
Device supports SMART and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Enabled
SMART Sense: Ok!
Current Drive Temperature: 38 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 65 C

Error counter log:
Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes Total
delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 651 0 0 651 651 12.248 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 4.653 0

Non-medium error count: 0

SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
# 2 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
# 3 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
# 4 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
# 5 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
# 6 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 587 seconds [9.8 minutes]