Thanks, Ben (& Jerry Feldman), I had come to the same conclusion, just
wanted some validation. I'm not looking forward to the several days it will
take to get this laptop properly configured for Linux again, once I have the
new hard drive. I'm just glad I was able to salvage (most of) the work I
had been doing. Argh! What a PITA!!!
BTW, if one of you on the list finds themselves in need of a floppy-based
distribution for situationa like this, I can recommend "tomsrtbt"
(http://www.toms.net/rb/), it was a no-brainer to download and install onto
a floppy, and works very well, with just about anything you'd need for an
emergency situation.
-*- Dave -*-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greater NH Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Need advice: hard disk trouble
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Dave Seidel wrote:
> > 1. Is this recoverable, and if so, how?
> > 2. Does it sound like the drive will have to be replaced?
>
> In order: No. Yes. :-)
>
> Assuming it isn't something stupid like a loose connection between the
drive
> and the IDE controller, the drive is failing and should be replaced.
Modern
> hard drives have ECC built in to the hardware, so if you're seeing errors
at
> the OS level, the drive is so far gone the built-in ECC is overwhelmed.
Blah
> blah blah, replace the drive. :-)
>
> --
> Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. |
>
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