Am Friday 18 February 2011 10:20:44 schrieb Stuart Winter: > > But of course now I wonder what caused this serious fail: > > * Did the Linux system (ARMed Slack 13.1) freeze and therefore corrupt > > the file systems? > > * Did the USB connection somehow got lost/unstable? > > * Did the hard disk fail and therefore freeze the system? > > * Problem with ext4 on ARM (I never had problems with it on my main PC) > > I've had Slackware arm 13.1 running on the box I use to build the eratta > packages, since it was installed after 13.1 was released - I've had no > problems with the ext4 filesystem on it.
Yes, did not have problems for a very long time and it was running almost 24/7. I've build 424 packages on this machine :) > The problem could be anywhere -- perhaps take out the disc from the usb > caddy and put it onto a bare IDE interface and try SMART? > The disc or USB caddy could be faulty. I guess it's the only thing I can do now. I hope this Seagate drive is a SATA disk, otherwise I'll have problems to connect it to the PC. It's the original Dockstar disk, does anybody now what interface is used? _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack