> Hi, > > I've been facing a strange problem three times today : the 20GB hard > disk of my 550MHz TiBook made a very noisy sound (like some sort of > brutal spin down), obviously went down, and ... never up : at that > moment I could not perform any kind of disk access (sync stays hanged, > I can not run any command, etc.). The only solution was to power-cycle > the machine, after which everything goes fine again ... till next hang > of the hard disk (3 times today). > > I have been using this machine extensively for the past two weeks, > from the moment I bought it, and never experienced this problem. I am > running a stock 2.4.19-pre7 kernel, Debian unstable, had no trouble of > this kind ever since today, and the hangs did not occur while the > machine was idle (so it's not power management, I guess). I am running > pmud, but I do not know if it has some hard disk saving features, > apart from spin down at suspend ... > > I've heard that the TiBook's hard disks were known to easily break. > Some people told me though that this could be simply a software > problem and recommended me to try a benh kernel ... although I never > had a problem with this plain one. > > Has any of you had trouble with the TiBook's hard disk ? Should I try > some other non-experimental (or more experimental ;) kernel to avoid > more random hangs ? > > Thanks,
I've got the same problem. I bought my Tibook about 4 months ago and I experienced this only 3 times IIRC. -- Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
