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General Discussion / Re: Problems booting ArcaOS
« on: August 15, 2018, 04:52:43 pm »Hi Pete,
Download the hard disk manufacturers disk test utilities and run them against the HD. If there is a HD problem this should indicate what and where it is - at least the various disk tools that I have do.
If it is a sector going bad you should be able to move the data on that sector to a spare sector and mark the sector as bad. I just wish we had a SMART monitor that worked with ArcaOS because the SMART output would also indicate problems - example, number of relocated sectors.
Edit to add.
Since you have eCS on the same disk the SmartMon from that should work assuming you have SMART enabled for the disk.
There is http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/disk/smartmontools-6.6-r4424.zip which seems to work here with Dani's driver and according to the readme supports the AHCI driver. Can even send the results to syslog.