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Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: chyang on April 13, 2006, 10:28:08 am

I need to diagnose whether there is problem with my Z or the software problem. It's too annoying. If it is a hardware problem, it's still in warranty. Wish it's one kind of software problem.

Thanks.

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: iamasmith on April 13, 2006, 10:57:43 am

There may be (can't remember) drive diagnostics in the D+M monitor... some may be destructive tests though so be sure you know how to backup and restore the whole thing before playing with them.

Can't take a look at the moment because my Z is doing a big rebuild of stuff at the moment.

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: bam on April 13, 2006, 08:46:39 pm

I have mapped out part of the diagnostics mode on my site, you might wanna go take a peek, it was a project to do just got bored/interested in other things, perhaps I will continue it later...

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: danboid on June 09, 2006, 09:34:16 am

Bam-

I found a link to your DM mapping page on your blog here

http://www.thegrinder.ws/main/blog?page=6 (http://www.thegrinder.ws/main/blog?page=6)

but its a dead link  Have you got one that works? Is there a microdrive testing tool in there?

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: bam on June 09, 2006, 03:03:46 pm

right here http://www.thegrinder.ws/main/node/2 (http://www.thegrinder.ws/main/node/2)

It appears there are some hdd diagnostic tools...cool

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: danboid on June 09, 2006, 03:17:33 pm

Indeed there are!

I'd never ran the DM menu until today as I was fully expecting it to be in Japanese like the update (or whatever its called- the one you get by holding down 'OK') menu. Great to be able to understand what I'm choosing/ whats going on. I'm running the HDD bit checksum right now.

EDIT

To do this you must unplug the AC and battery, hold down D + M (Diagnostic Menu)

It must've took about an hour or just less to get a checksum out of it, but it doesn't seem to save it so you have to write it down. There is a complimentary HDD menu option to checksum from a txt file on a disc.

After that there are another couple of options, one being to run a HDD check. I'm about halfway through it now and so far its found 353 RANK A sectors and 160 RANK B- what does RANK B mean? Can these not be repaired?

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: danboid on June 09, 2006, 06:19:46 pm

It took a few hours but my now I have my HDD check results

7999487 sectors checked

RANK A 0537

RANK B 0263

I had a fresh install of pdaXrom b2 on that I could still boot up after the check so it would seem to be non-destructive.

I've searched the forums for "rank b" but I couldn't find anything but this thread on it. My test said OK! and the ranking did go down to I so I would presume that there is actually nothing wrong with my HD, I'd just set something up wrong in pdaXrom (or its a bug in pdaXrom, it is an unofficial beta!)

At least now I know what to run when/if I upgrade or replace the internal HD.

Title: Any Microdrive Diagnose Tool For Zaurus
Post by: ldrolez on June 13, 2006, 06:40:09 am

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I so I would presume that there is actually nothing wrong with my HD, I'd just set something up wrong in pdaXrom

You say that you have hard disk problems... but which   ... Do you have any error messages to show (dmesg) ?

  Ludo.