Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop.  My first drive to ever fail that I recall.  I still say windoze screwed up my drive.  It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:02:03 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop.  My first drive to ever fail that I recall.  I still say windoze screwed up my drive.  It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows rig's PSU is

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
OK.  For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks like when a hard drive is going belly up: (...) So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon.  Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day. Thanks, Dale. Actually I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure, but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D Sorry, I meant made me want to do a backup as soon as possible

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 2, 2011 9:22 PM, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure, but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D Sorry, I meant made me want to do a backup as soon as possible I almost thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:02:03 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: I think that means you have a nice new door stop. My first drive to ever fail that I recall. I still say windoze screwed up my drive. It lasted about 3 days in the windoze rig. It may also be that the Windows rig's

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks like when a hard drive is going belly up: (...) So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon. Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 2 November 2011 01:17, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me.  Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think?  Can I fix it somehow?  I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale :-)  :-) Nov  1

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Dale
James Broadhead wrote: On 2 November 2011 01:17, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 01 Nov 2011 18:58:14 Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: [snip ...] === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24

[gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: root@smoker / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me.  Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think?  Can I fix it somehow?  I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale Start doing backups before you

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale Start doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Well, it was in my brothers winders rig.  Winders couldn't do anything but puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 02:47:27 PM Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Hi, For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. Here is the info: SNIP What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel handy just in case. Dale :-) :-) OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

2011-11-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon. Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day. Now I know this is a Western Digital drive. Let's all face it, they all die eventually. I just find it ironic that it is only a few