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Firewire Failure
Authored by: baltwo on Aug 10, '04 02:18:50AM

If both those disks are SMART capable, then that means they've passed whatever test is built into diskutil. Run this from the Terminal app:

diskutil list

which will give the appropriate items for this next command:

diskutil info /dev/diskX --replace the X with whatever came back above

usually: boot disk: disk0, second internal: disk1, externals: disk(whatever)

Note that "good" disks report: SMART Status: Verified

According to Apple's docs:

Most disk drives include S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) hardware developed by IBM that allows hard disks to test themselves for potential problems. If your disk is "verified," it's a valid disk with nothing wrong at this time. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, back up your disk immediately and have the disk replaced. It will fail.



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