| Installed 2nd Hard disk in G5 and got a Smart failure warning on Drive [message #110205] |
Tue, 10 September 2013 14:20  |
Macg4-steve
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Put in a Hitachi 160 as 2nd drive in my G5 and ran Smart Utility, got an
iminent drive failure warning, got another drive (250gb Maxtor) put that in
and got the same warning!
Ran both drives through Gsmartcontrol on Ubuntu and both drives showed
clean with no errors, s this a G5/OSX thing? Can I safely leave the 250 GB
drive running?
TI
Steve
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| Re: Installed 2nd Hard disk in G5 and got a Smart failure warning on Drive [message #110206 is a reply to message #110205] |
Tue, 10 September 2013 15:31  |
Valter Prahlad
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Il giorno 10/09/13 20.20, "Macg4-steve" ha scritto:
> Ran both drives through Gsmartcontrol on Ubuntu and both drives showed
> clean with no errors, s this a G5/OSX thing?
AFAIK it's not a G5 thing. I've used an old G5 for a couple years, with two
drives in it, and never got any SMART notice.
Besides, and more important, I never heard of any significant amount of
SMART messages about G5s.
Since you checked those drives in Ubuntu, they're probably fine, but I
wouldn't use them on anything critical before finding where the problem is.
Most likely, the problem is in your G5.
It could be software-related (some part of the OS got flaky), or
hardware-related (the drive controller or something).
You can try the following:
- Create another user account, switch to it, try again inserting the HDs.
- If you have another partition available, or another drive to insert,
install OSX anew and boot from it: if the problem is software related, it
should disappear.
You could even use one of those drive to install OSX anew on it: if
everything works, it's likely the drive is fine.
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