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#1 10-21-2007, 11:00 PM

Hello!

I noticed most of the HDD controller errors occur during shutdown on my
dad's old Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. A few of these
errors even came up during the boot up. The computer only has one HDD, a
D: DVD burner drive, and sometimes an external USB flash drive/stick.

Exported Windows XP's System Event Logs with the sections that look
suspicious can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/744908 ... I attached
SpeedFan v4.32's online HTML SMART results (overall good) in this
newsgroup post.

What do you think? Thank you in advance.

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#2 10-22-2007, 03:02 AM

S.M.A.R.T. hard disk status and hard disk failure preventionAnt <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hello!

> I noticed most of the HDD controller errors occur during shutdown on my
> dad's old Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. A few of these
> errors even came up during the boot up. The computer only has one HDD,
> a D: DVD burner drive, and sometimes an external USB flash drive/stick.

> Exported Windows XP's System Event Logs with the sections that look
> suspicious can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/744908 ... I attached
> SpeedFan v4.32's online HTML SMART results (overall good) in this
> newsgroup post.

> What do you think?

That the drive appears to be fine from the SMART report.

The XP event log is likely just mindlessly rabbiting on about something that doesnt matter.

I'd normally see what the diagnostic has to say in this
situation, but thats likely a problem with a Toshiba laptop.

> Thank you in advance.

Stop smirking, boy.

#3 10-22-2007, 04:35 AM

On 10/21/2007 7:02 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:

>> I noticed most of the HDD controller errors occur during shutdown on my
>> dad's old Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. A few of these
>> errors even came up during the boot up. The computer only has one HDD,
>> a D: DVD burner drive, and sometimes an external USB flash drive/stick.
>
>> Exported Windows XP's System Event Logs with the sections that look
>> suspicious can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/744908 ... I attached
>> SpeedFan v4.32's online HTML SMART results (overall good) in this
>> newsgroup post.
>
>> What do you think?
>
> That the drive appears to be fine from the SMART report.
>
> The XP event log is likely just mindlessly rabbiting on about something that doesnt matter.
>
> I'd normally see what the diagnostic has to say in this
> situation, but thats likely a problem with a Toshiba laptop.

Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility? If so, then I
will have to find it.

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#4 10-22-2007, 08:32 AM

Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/2007 7:02 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:
>
>>> I noticed most of the HDD controller errors occur during shutdown
>>> on my dad's old Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. A few
>>> of these errors even came up during the boot up. The computer only
>>> has one HDD, a D: DVD burner drive, and sometimes an external USB
>>> flash drive/stick.
>>
>>> Exported Windows XP's System Event Logs with the sections that look
>>> suspicious can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/744908 ... I
>>> attached SpeedFan v4.32's online HTML SMART results (overall good)
>>> in this newsgroup post.
>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> That the drive appears to be fine from the SMART report.
>>
>> The XP event log is likely just mindlessly rabbiting on about
>> something that doesnt matter. I'd normally see what the diagnostic has to say in this
>> situation, but thats likely a problem with a Toshiba laptop.

> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?

Yep.

> If so, then I will have to find it.

Thats the hard part.

#5 10-22-2007, 01:31 PM

On 10/22/2007 12:32 AM PT, Rod Speed typed:

>> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?
>
> Yep.
>
>> If so, then I will have to find it.
>
> Thats the hard part.

Wait, do I want diagnostic program for the whole laptop/notebook or just
the HDD?
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#6 10-22-2007, 07:29 PM

Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?

>> Yep.

>>> If so, then I will have to find it.

>> Thats the hard part.

> Wait, do I want diagnostic program for the whole laptop/notebook or just the HDD?

Whatever you can find, given the problem with toshiba and diags, and
the fact that the event log is whining about a problem with the controller.
In theory the HDD diag should cover that, bit it may well not see a
problem given that the event log only whines about it at shutdown.

#7 10-22-2007, 08:04 PM

Just the hard drive.

You are looking for something that does not exist.

Ant wrote:
> On 10/22/2007 12:32 AM PT, Rod Speed typed:
>
>>> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>>> If so, then I will have to find it.
>>
>> Thats the hard part.
>
> Wait, do I want diagnostic program for the whole laptop/notebook or just
> the HDD?

#8 10-23-2007, 02:22 PM

Are you saying Toshiba doesn't make HDD utilities?

On 10/22/2007 12:04 PM PT, Barry Watzman typed:

> Just the hard drive.
>
> You are looking for something that does not exist.
>
>
> Ant wrote:
>> On 10/22/2007 12:32 AM PT, Rod Speed typed:
>>
>>>> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>>> If so, then I will have to find it.
>>>
>>> Thats the hard part.
>>
>> Wait, do I want diagnostic program for the whole laptop/notebook or
>> just the HDD?
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#9 10-23-2007, 04:10 PM

Pretty much, yes. Toshiba has not, in the past, offered diagnostics for
their hard drives.

Ant wrote:
> Are you saying Toshiba doesn't make HDD utilities?

>
>
> On 10/22/2007 12:04 PM PT, Barry Watzman typed:
>
>> Just the hard drive.
>>
>> You are looking for something that does not exist.
>>
>>
>> Ant wrote:
>>> On 10/22/2007 12:32 AM PT, Rod Speed typed:
>>>
>>>>> Are you talking about the Toshiba's diagnostics utility?
>>>>
>>>> Yep.
>>>>
>>>>> If so, then I will have to find it.
>>>>
>>>> Thats the hard part.
>>>
>>> Wait, do I want diagnostic program for the whole laptop/notebook or
>>> just the HDD?

#10 10-23-2007, 05:23 PM

Wow, what's up with that? Since I never used Toshiba HDDs before. How
good are they? Are they reliable? Good warranty?

So, do you guys just use third party to test HDDs like chkdsk/scandisk,
Norton Disk Doctor, SpinRite, etc.?

On 10/23/2007 8:10 AM PT, Barry Watzman typed:

> Pretty much, yes. Toshiba has not, in the past, offered diagnostics for
> their hard drives.
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H.T.F.C.

Need to worry about HDD? "The driver detected a controller erroron \Device\Harddisk1\D." in XP Pro. SP2's system event logs.

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