On 5/3/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, May 3, 2007 8:57 am, Joshua Penix wrote:
> On May 2, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Lan Barnes wrote:
>
>> Went home for errands and booted it up. It w o r k s, sort of, but
>> it's
>> real slow to boot and stuff. The logs show a nest of hda errors
>> yesterday
>> and some DMA errors.
>>
>> Then when I tried to exit X it went south with a couple of hda
>> resers/OK
>> and dma messages. Had to power down.
>
> Is your hard drive dying? If so, I'm pretty sure I have a spare 2.5"
> laptop hard drive that I saved from a previous Thinkpad upgrade. If
> memory serves, it's only 10-20GB, but it might do the trick. If you
> think that'd help let me know - I'll have to double check its
> existence when I get to my office, but otherwise it's yours if you want.
>
Thanks.
If it's dying, I can't prove it with smartd, hence my desire to take it to
the installfest Saturday where adults can pore over it. I also wondered if
the DMA controller got fried when the thing overheated. I'm as educated
about hardware as the next Fiji Island native, but it seems to me that HD
problems could arise if DMA in unreliable. So maybe the drive is the good
part and the MB has fried components?
Anyway, 20 G would be awful tight. This drive is/was a 40 G and while
enough for me, half as much might not be. Still, a swap of drives might be
a good test of the DMA hypothesis. Maybe I should try to get ahold of it
before Saturday.
Carl, that's your installfest. What do you think?
Do you have (or does someone have) an external USB adapter to take the
removed drive so that salvageable stuff can be copied back to the
transplant? Or does everything of value now exist on some other
system?
Actually, looking around, I have an external USB case to take a 2.5" disk drive.
After that, it's just a simple matter of being organized. :-)
carl
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