What is a good way to test SATA Hard Drive?

[katzdvd]

I believe I may have unfairly faulted Linux a few days ago with my post... time will tell...

I have been trying different distros on the same SATA drive, on the same partition, & I am getting crashes all over the place that the Linux guys on the forums can't understand - at least they don't think it is all OS related.

So that brings me to hardware issues. I have Win XP on another PATA drive, & I am going to run that for a few days nonstop to see if I have any trouble, maybe that will point to a bad SATA drive.

This shouldn't be any kind of heat issue, as the pc is kept cool & clean. All the components are around a year old, except the XP drive, that one is probably around 3-4 yrs. old.

Is there any kind of test I can run on the SATA HD, to verify the integrity of it?

[atifsh]

goto seagate and get one of their utilities to check the status of drives.
if that comes fine, then try installing xp on this same sata, and see what happens if install goes fine and ur pc shutdowns clean and restarts fine and u dont get any problems, then i guess drive is fine.

[PurpleDemon]

Good info atfish.

Are you talking about Seatools?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/

[atifsh]

Are you talking about Seatools?

yes, and it works, i remember one option will show u and fix bad sectors by replacing them by zero's. but if they comeback time to change the drive

[katzdvd]

I ran both the short & long drive self tests, they both came back passed. I will continue to run the rest of the tests. I see there is also a DOS vers. of the test that will repair bad sectors.

Will keep you all posted.

[Chewy]

any good drive test will be run from dos or a clone

there's still the possibility the motherboard/bios and cable or power supply is the culprit tho

[katzdvd]

any good drive test will be run from dos or a clone

there's still the possibility the motherboard/bios and cable or power supply is the culprit tho

I will run the DOS test next, & swap cables/motherboard slots if nothing shows up.

[katzdvd]

Ran all DOS tests - short & long mode. Everything passes. Guess it is time to start swapping out cables & Sata positions to see if I can track it down. Will the HD work properly/ boot okay if I plug into S2 on the mainboard?

Seems like it would, but you never know with these things...

EDIT - I wanted to mention; The Sata drive that I have Linux installed is running around 100 degrees F. The other Sata drive, used for storage is running right around 85 - 90 F.

[katzdvd]

Oh Oh... More problems. I have been browsing the web using win xp, it is on a separate PATA drive. I thought things were okay, & what do you know, the screen went black, and the pc rebooted. I'm not really sure where to start with the diagnosis.

For me, the Power Supply & Mainboard come to mind; not really sure how/where to check either one, especially with an intermittent problem like this. I do have load testers for the PS, those big ceramic resistor things. I suppose I can start with that, although being intermittent, how much is that really gonna tell me?

It's not like the pc was under any serious load, just web surfing. It was powered up for about 8 hrs. straight before the reboot.

Unfortunately, I do not have another PS to throw in here for the test.

EDIT - Everest Sensor Report - Isn't that 12 V supposed to higher? I thought I remember seeing that up around 12.93 V in the past? Don't know if that is enough to matter.

--------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc. ]------------------------------------------------------------

Version EVEREST v2.20.405
Homepage http://www.lavalys.com/
Report Type Quick Report
Computer TJR-YXCLIUXACVG
Generator TJR
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail)
Date 2008-06-05
Time 08:11


--------[ Sensor ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sensor Properties:
Sensor Type Winbond W83647HF (ISA 290h)
GPU Sensor Type Driver (NV-DRV)

Temperatures:
Motherboard 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU 33 °C (91 °F)
Aux 38 °C (100 °F)
GPU 48 °C (118 °F)
Seagate ST3250820AS 27 °C (81 °F)
Maxtor 6Y080L0 24 °C (75 °F)

Cooling Fans:
CPU 2096 RPM

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.19 V
Aux 3.71 V
+3.3 V 3.30 V
+5 V 5.54 V
+12 V 12.65 V
-12 V 3.02 V
-5 V 3.25 V
+5 V Standby 4.99 V
VBAT Battery 0.02 V
Debug Info F FF A1 FF
Debug Info T 35 33 38
Debug Info V B1 E8 CE CE D0 DA DA (03)

[Chewy]

what's the make/model and specs of the power supply

a link?

[katzdvd]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153052&Tpk=w0100ru

[Chewy]

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

how many drives and fans are you pushing?

[katzdvd]

2 PATA HD
2 SATA HD

Intake & Exhaust Fan

Right now I only have 1 SATA drive connected. To use those pgms. I will have to boot over into windows, & I hate to risk a crash & then have to reinstall XP.


Oh well, life is full of risks!

[katzdvd]

CORE TEMP - Room temp today is about 73 F. The pc has been running for about 3 hrs. Just web surfing, nothing else.

Revision: JH-E6
Time & Date CPU Temperature Low temp. High temp. Core load CPU Speed
18:52:12 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 51 51 0 2394.27
18:52:13 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 50 51 2 2394.27
18:52:14 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 50 51 10 2394.27
18:52:15 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 50 51 0 2394.27
18:52:16 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 50 51 2 2394.27
18:52:17 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 50 51 0 2394.27
18:52:18 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 50 51 2 2394.27
18:52:19 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 50 51 0 2394.27
18:52:20 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 50 51 0 2394.27
18:52:21 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 50 51 0 2394.27
18:52:22 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 49 49 51 3 2394.27
18:52:23 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:24 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 3 2394.27
18:52:25 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:26 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:27 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:28 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:29 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:30 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 3 2394.27
18:52:31 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 49 49 51 2 2394.27
18:52:32 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 51 2 2394.27
18:52:33 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:34 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 49 49 51 3 2394.27
18:52:35 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:36 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 2 2394.27
18:52:37 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 51 2 2394.27
18:52:38 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 51 0 2394.27
18:52:39 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 52 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:40 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:41 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 49 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:42 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:43 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:44 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:45 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:46 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 49 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:47 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:48 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:49 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:50 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:51 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:52 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:53 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 52 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:54 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:55 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 0 2394.27
18:52:56 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 50 49 52 2 2394.27
18:52:57 06/05/08 CPU#0 (Core#0): 51 49 52 0 2394.27

HARDWARE MONITOR -

CPUID Hardware Monitor 1.0.9.0
-----------------------------------------------------

Mainboard Vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Mainboard Model A8V-VM SE (0x257 - 0x2AC31AC)

LPCIO
-----------------------------------------------------
Vendor Winbond
Model W83627EHF
Vendor ID 0x5CA3
Chip ID 0x88
Revision ID 0x63
Config Mode I/O address 0x2E

Dump config mode register space, LDN = 0xB
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 0B FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
10 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
20 88 63 FF 00 00 00 00 FF 50 04 01 00 F3 21 00 FF
30 01 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
40 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
50 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
60 02 90 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
70 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF


Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

Winbond W83627EHF hardware monitor

Voltage sensor 0 1.42 Volts [0xB1] (CPU VCORE)
Voltage sensor 1 1.86 Volts [0xE8] (VIN0)
Voltage sensor 2 3.30 Volts [0xCE] (AVCC)
Voltage sensor 3 3.30 Volts [0xCE] (+3.3V)
Voltage sensor 4 1.66 Volts [0xD0] (VIN1)
Voltage sensor 5 1.74 Volts [0xDA] (VIN2)
Voltage sensor 6 1.74 Volts [0xDA] (VIN3)
Voltage sensor 7 1.64 Volts [0xCD] (VIN4)
Temperature sensor 0 39°C (102°F) [0x27] (SYSTIN)
Temperature sensor 1 39°C (101°F) [0x4D] (CPUTIN)
Temperature sensor 2 45°C (112°F) [0x59] (AUXTIN)
Fan sensor 1 2109 RPM [0xA0] (CPUFANIN0)

Dump hardware monitor
LPC Register space, base address = 0x0290

bank 0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
00 04 FF 04 FF 01 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 3C 3C 0A 0A
10 04 FF 00 00 00 01 01 3C 03 07 00 00 57 00 00 C4
20 AE E7 CF CF D0 D9 DA 27 FF A0 FF DA 00 83 C3 87
30 7B A4 F4 BB 83 BB EF F4 DF 30 2E BC E9 8F 93 FF
40 03 DE 1F DE FF FF 00 B4 2D FF 40 44 10 95 00 A3
50 FF FF 80 FF FF FF 00 80 A1 50 FF FF 19 20 FF 05
60 04 FF 40 00 01 01 3C FF 01 FF 01 FF FF FF FF FF
70 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
80 04 FF 04 FF 01 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 3C 3C 0A 0A
90 04 FF 00 00 00 01 01 3C 03 07 00 00 57 00 00 C6
A0 AE E7 CE CF D0 D9 DA 27 FF A0 FF DA 00 83 C3 87
B0 7B A4 F4 BB 83 BB EF F4 DF 30 2E BC E9 8F 93 FF
C0 03 00 10 DE FF FF 00 B4 2D FF 40 44 10 95 00 A3
D0 FF FF 80 FF FF FF 00 80 A1 50 FF FF 19 20 FF 05
E0 04 FF 40 00 01 01 3C FF 01 FF 01 FF FF FF FF FF
F0 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF

bank 1
50 26 80 00 4B 00 50 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
bank 2
50 2D 00 00 4B 00 50 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
bank 3
50 03 00 02 02 02 00 00 02 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF
bank 4
50 3B 13 FF 00 00 FA 00 FF 72 4E 1D BB 49 FF FF FF
bank 5
50 CE 01 CE FF 3B 95 FD 7D B3 6D 4D B4 CD 00 00 00


Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 51°C (123°F) [0x64] (core #0)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
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GeForce 7600 GT hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 52°C (125°F) [0x34] (GPU Core)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
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ST3250820AS hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 32°C (89°F) [0x20] (HDD)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
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Maxtor 6Y080L0 hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 27°C (80°F) [0x1B] (HDD)

Dump hardware monitor


Processors Map
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of processors 1
Number of threads 1

Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0


Processors Information
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 1 (max 1)
Number of threads 1 (max 1)
Name AMD Athlon 64 4000+
Codename San Diego
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+
Package Socket 939
CPUID F.7.2
Extended CPUID F.37
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping DH-E6
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 2394.2 MHz (12.0 x 199.5 MHz)
HT Link speed 997.6 MHz
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
max FID 12.0x
VID range 1.100 V - 1.400 V
Features XD
K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 4.3
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3


Thread dumps
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU Thread 0
APIC ID 0
Topology Processor ID 0, Core ID 0, Thread ID 0
Type 02002001h
Max CPUID level 00000001h
Max CPUID ext. level 80000018h

Function eax ebx ecx edx
0x00000000 0x00000001 0x68747541 0x444D4163 0x69746E65
0x00000001 0x00030F72 0x00000800 0x00000001 0x078BFBFF
0x80000000 0x80000018 0x68747541 0x444D4163 0x69746E65
0x80000001 0x00030F72 0x00000112 0x00000001 0xE3D3FBFF
0x80000002 0x20444D41 0x6C687441 0x74286E6F 0x3620296D
0x80000003 0x72502034 0x7365636F 0x20726F73 0x30303034
0x80000004 0x0000002B 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000005 0xFF08FF08 0xFF20FF20 0x40020140 0x40020140
0x80000006 0x00000000 0x42004200 0x04008140 0x00000000
0x80000007 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0000000F
0x80000008 0x00003028 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000009 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000A 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000B 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000C 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000D 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000E 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x8000000F 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000010 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000011 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000012 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000013 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000014 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000015 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000016 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000017 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
0x80000018 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000

Cache descriptor Level 1 I 64 KB 1 threads
Cache descriptor Level 1 D 64 KB 1 threads
Cache descriptor Level 2 U 1 MB 1 threads

MSR 0x0000001B edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0xFEE00900
MSR 0xC001001E edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0x00000043
MSR 0xC0010015 edx = 0x00000000 eax = 0x10000000
MSR 0xC0010042 edx = 0x12060808 eax = 0x06101010
MSR 0xC0010041 edx = 0x00000001 eax = 0x00000810



Drive
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Name ST3250820AS

Drive
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Name Maxtor 6Y080L0

Drive
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Name WDC WD800BB-00CAA1

[katzdvd]

Chewy - Just a thought: My cpu fan is blowing air down into the heatsink. Which way do you recommend? To blow air onto it or pull air thru the fins & off of it?

I see opinions/arguments for both directions all over the 'net.