Oh no! Not again!

[Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>]

Dear all,

to determine whether my DMA problem was due to the disk or the motherboard,
I moved the disk to another machine, where I could successfully
hdparm -Tt /dev/hdc without crashing linux while in udma2.
However, when I put the disk back into its rightful place,
linux died horribly with lots of error messages from reiserfs.
I booted on /boot where I had kept a minimal runtime, and used reiserfsck.
Reiserfsck reported an inconsistency that required using --rebuild-tree.
And after approximately two hours, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree entered
an endless loop, printing
do_pass_2: The block (27179935) is in the tree already. Should not happen.

Is there anything I can do about that, to put it in working order,
or should I reformat and restore what I can from backup?

I've got a distinct feeling this disk will soon go back to MAXTOR,
just like its twin brother.

[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
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