Comments on: Primary Master Hard Disk SMART Status Bad

By: Perath Kunchu Prabha(Thrissur)

Perath Kunchu Prabha(Thrissur) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:09:13 +0000

Primary master hard disk S.M.A.R.T status bad. WARNING: Immediate back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive.

I got this msg first time. I am using Redhat Linux-4 and working in a company. I am managing all machines here. I am a RHCE certifies person. I use to do all activiteis expect the warning msg above. I got this msg in one of our systems. I use to take back up for all systems through server. so no problem for backup. just last week i saw this msg, but what i have done is, I did’t replace the hdd. The hdd is 160 gb sata samsung. I just formated and restalled Redhat again.It works very fine. No msg is coming now.

By: Elz

Elz — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:52:54 +0000

Hi, I was wondering if any other guy has found out a real explaination for the SMART Error or if there is any known fix for that error message.

Thanks

By: David law

David law — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:55:46 +0000

The only help I can offer is that I also got a S.M.A.R.T. warning shortly before my HDD died - fortunately it was not my Primary (system) disk.

By: Barona1

Barona1 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:12:56 +0000

If your computer is your business then smarten up!
RAID 1 your drives.
Have RAID spares.
Get a Hardward RAID card.
Replace drives on a regular basis and NOT when they fail.
IDE drive: Replace within two years…I suggest one. If you RAID 1 then use three drives and replace an active one every year.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:32:32 +0000

I think I know what happened. He activated a disability mode for the keyboard. He activated something called Slow Keys by holding the right shift key down for more than 8 seconds.

To turn it off, I think you need to hold the right shift key down for 8 seconds again. A popup window will come up. Hit the cancel button.

Check out this page:
http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/prefs-keyboard-a11y.html#goscustaccess-TBL-11

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:48:15 +0000

Hello, I have a key board problem that is not the keyboard because I tried a new keyboard and had the same problem. I have a dell computer with windows xp home edition. When I type if I use the same letter twice in a row I have to wait 2 seconds before I can type the letter again. Also when I use backspace I have to push it,let go and wait 2 seconds then push it again to delete the next letter.Also there is click sound in the computer every time I push a key that wasn’t there before. This all started when my grandson played on the computer several hours. He doesn’t know what he did. Every thing else works fine. I have tried everything I can and can’t figure it out. It is very annoying. I hope you can figure it out. Thanks