On Friday 14 April 2006 14:30, John Jolet wrote: > On Apr 14, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Bo Andresen wrote: > > On Friday 14 April 2006 03:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> If you have smart enabled (and you should have) and smartmontools > >> installed > >> (you should have done that too), smart can tell you, if it is a > >> hardware > >> problem (which is pretty probably the cause of the problem). > > > > Thank you very much for the pointer. I had never heard of this > > before but it > > is definitely going on it the future.. It confirms that the disc > > has 39 bad > > blocks so now I am reading the faq to figure out how to deal with > > this. :) > > > >> Back up everything... > > > > As stated in the original post I am trying to. > > > > But when I try to copy everything to an external harddrive after > > some time the > > external harddrive is disconnected. I am not sure if this is a > > separate issue > > or if it happens as a result of too many errors on my system disk. > > > > Anyway I have backed up everything that cannot be replaced so first > > I will > > deal with the bad blocks and then if the problem remains I will > > probably tar > > everything up to my server via ssh.. > > as the others said, start digging a grave for this drive. Had a > drive doing the same thing on a production box for a few months, > phbs waited till it just died to order the replacement. these kinds > of errors are warning signs of impending doom.
on the other hand, my drive has 705 bad sectors since I played around with S3 standby abd using the reset button way too often. Since then - two month now, the harddrive says, it will die in the next 24 hours - but it still works fine... I know, what went wrong, the S3 stuff really confused my box and hitting reset while doing harddisk accesses was the final drop. It has not become worse since then, which makes it an urgent case for replacement, but not an emergency.... I backed up everything really important, and will buy a new one in the next 14 days. But this is different from 'suddenly fs errors popped up' which is not true in my case. If sudden fs errors appear and bad blocks, the disk is on the highway to the harddisk fairy in the heart of Lalaland. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list