Re: Oh no! Not again!

[Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>]

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 22:31, Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> OK. So I built the latest reiserfsck as a static binary,
> and ran it with --rebuild-tree, and I got an infinite loop
> just like previously. In case anyone cares, I have kept the logfile for it.
> Is there anything that interests you about that failure,
> or should I promptly reformat the disk?

Did you run the fsck (booted from /boot) when the drive was in that other
mashine you had no problem with or in the problem one? It is a bad idea to 
run reiserfsck on a broken hardware - the result is unpredictable. 

> Also, does any of you have any hint as to how to identify the failure
> that led to this crash? I suspect either the disk or the motherboard,

If you do not see any problem with the disk when you put it into another 
computer - it is not the disk. It can be IDE controller, cable...

> but it's hard to tell: booting on my 80MB rescue disk works well,
> whereas the disk looks like it works correctly on another machine,
> and does not issue errors even on that machine, if I don't use DMA.
> Really weird. What scares me is that if I don't identify the problem,
> a similar crash may happen again...
>
> Cheers!
>
> [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics |
> http://fare.tunes.org ] [  TUNES project for a Free Reflective Computing
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> its rightful home at Disneyland.

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Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman