From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Todd Lyons Subject: Re: Hard disk crash and solution Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:08:01 -0800 Message-ID: <20030204030801.GC1144@mrball.net> References: <20030127055331.E976@humilis> <20030127100349.B22720@namesys.com> <200302030711.13593.amosf@mrbean.net.au> <20030203054928.W2964@humilis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203054928.W2964@humilis> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; x-action="pgp-signed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ookhoi wanted us to know: >A lot? Sometimes you can hear a disk recalibrate, which is not bad, but >that should be only now and then. If you're hearing what I have heard, it's the sound your ears hear when you're scratching your head. At that point it's trying to read a bad sector and multiple reads/writes seemingly have stacked up in the queue and the machine has come nearly to a halt. It's still running, but barely, more like crawling. >Try to run an ibm drive fitness program and see what it tells you about >the disk. They refer to it as DFT and they have a couple of different versions as I remember. It's good software too. Boots from PC-DOS :) - -- Blue skies... Todd Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Linux kernel 2.4.19-16mdk 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.18 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Py6RIBT1264ScBURAqd5AKCoW/QHfvqAiIQNmdcMxUJVT4VKiACgucMx PeceAr3qu73ZAU08mssAUDY= =VJP/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----