SATA Problem, drive reading slow

yyingarage · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

well i have 2 hds one ide and one sata. gentoo is on the ide, and xp pro is on the sata. i switch the bios boot order for whichever os i want. well everything was fine until about 2 days ago, i tried to start up in windows and it was going extremely slow, took over ten minutes, eventually i gave up and reset. i figured something was wrong with the drive or maybe linux had something to do with it. the only thing i have done with the drive while in linux is mount it as readonly. is there any possiblilites i might have F'ed something up? so then i decide i better move some of the things i have on the hd that i wanna keep. so i mount the sata as readonly, and start to copy files... it basically locks up on some files, not all of them. it acts as if it cant read it but it tries and tries. so what do u think? drive is bad? or i did something i shouldnt have? any help is hugely appreciated.

peace

jschellhaass · Guru Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 341

Sounds like the drive is going bad or at least has developed some bad sectors. The drive manufacturer should have some diagnostics for the drive or you use smartmontools to pull check the drives.

jeff