Since I've installed gentoo, all my HDs went crazy. I'm completly at a loss when talking of hardware. Here is my disk layout: hda: mandrake's root, /home hdb: winXP root hdc: gentoo's root
Monday, my /home (hda) stopped responding with lots of dma and other hd related errors. I buyed a new disk to do some backups and swap the failing disk. After plugging the new disk (hdd), everything was fine again. I did my backups, but didnt removed the faulty disk. Tuesday, my / (hdc) stopped responding after a reboot. Every module modprobing gave errors. Some directories were gone (/usr/lib/portage for example). I mounted the gentoo's cd to get tools back, but /usr/lib/portage was back. Next reboot freezed after not finding some modules. I rebooted in mandrake. Everything was there but reiserfsck found some errors and the screwed my partition. I tought it would be a good idea to clear the disk and reinstall from scratch (on hdc again). 36 hours of compilation later, everything was fine again. I backuped the whole install on hdd. Thursday, hdc went wrong again, every parition messed up again. I took hdc out and booted on the backup partition of hdd. All clear. And today, /home (hda), gave me some new errors. First that message: "maison kernel: journal-601, buffer write failed" printed on every console. Then Input/output error on every access try. Mount, fdisk and hdparm never return. The BIOS seems happy with each disk. Mandrake never gave me any HD error. What can I do now? Change my motherboard? throw my disks away? How can I be sure that the error come from the disks, from the MB's chipset or from a gentoo's driver? Could the fact that I told my disks to fo to standby mode after a while cause problems? Is there a tool to tests the whole disks? Every help would be appreciated. thanks in advance. -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
