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From: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel or failing harddisc?
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:50:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411091350.15626.alistair@devzero.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099998443.15469.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tuesday 09 Nov 2004 11:07, Alan Cox wrote:
[snip]
>
> It could be anything. An interrupt went walkies which could easily be
> the driver, thermals, cabling, phase of the moon, drive,... If those are
> the only logged lines then the drive hasn't reported any problems back.
>
> Failed maxtors normally make it very clear they died - both in smart
> data (usually) and by spewing drive level errors.
>
> Alan

Thanks Alan, I'll look into it. Since I've not received any SMART warnings, 
I'll just assume the drive is fine and it's something else.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-09 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-09  0:54 Kernel or failing harddisc? Alistair John Strachan
2004-11-09 11:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-09 13:50   ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2004-11-10  0:08     ` Tomasz Rola
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-10 19:31 Nick Warne

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