Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:30:38 -0800 (PST) | From | George Bonser <> | Subject | Re: Possible hardware failure? Cryptic kernel messages... |
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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Noah Beck wrote:
> I've never seen those sorts of errors without bad hardware present. > I would:
Well, it was a brand new drive in my case. It looks like it starts doing it under heavy activity and once it gets into that state, nothing will clear it except a hard power cycle. The reset button will not even clear the fault in the drive.
> > Back up the data on the disk as much as possible (I suspect you'll > get read errors around that sector).
BTW, I backed it up, did a badblocks scan, it reported no errors, I restored the data and it ran for 3 days and did the same thing again.
It looks like I am learning not to trust the manufacturers low-level format.
George Bonser Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.
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