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>On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
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>> On 3/19/00 03:51, INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at =
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>> Well, if I can't get it to work, you want me to send it to you? :-)
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>I got the 1.2 g WD Caviar (fancy storing data in fish eggs :-) I use now
>for free 'cuz it wouldn't work in a windoze box. Why not?
>
Well, it looks like you may have talked yourself out of a drive. Your
suggestion to use `e2fsck -c` was spot on. I ran `e2fsck -c`, and it
found some bad blocks on the drive. I lost some bits of Adobe Acrobat,
StarOffice, WordPerfect and my default console font, but that isn't that
tragic. The console font was fixed when I updated the system; Acrobat I
can reinstall from the SuSE distro. StarOffice was on its way out
anyway, and I had planned on loading the full version of WP as soon as I
had some time.
So, bottomline, the system is up and running again. (Although I am a bit
miffed at the SuSE update. It whacked a perfectly good kernel in favor
of one two versions older - 2.2.10 for 2.2.12. Gotta figure out why it
did that.)
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>> I've redone the cables, but that has not fixed the problem. An odd
>thing=
>> is that this drive also has the swap for my slackware system on it, and
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>> that seems to be going ok so far. 'Course, I could just be lucky so
>far =
>> that I haven't hit any corruption on the swap partition.
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>Maybe it has enough RAM ir doesn't need to use virtual much?
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>> How did you come up with the idea of putting the drive in the fridge?
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>> (Sorry, but it is not one of the usual troubleshooting tips I hear.)
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>Just the sounds it makes starting up normally and doesn't make at 95
>degrees and 95% RH, it sounded like it checked a thermostat before it
>started that needed to be reset.
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>> >If none of that helps, you may still be able to get some more mileage
>> >out of the puppy by running e2fsck -c to mark the bad blocks and not
>try=
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>> >to use them any more.
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>> Haven't tried this yet. It's up next after I try to salvage some files
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>> using tar.
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>> This system was running 2.2.12, and I have sources for 2.2.13 and
>2.2.14.=
>> If I have to rebuild it, I will reinstall SuSE 6.2 and then update to
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>> SuSE 6.3. I already have the cds; I was just waiting for a good =
>> opportunity. Can't really say this is a "good" opportunity, but it is
>an=
>> opportunity. Just wish I wasn't crashing on a couple of programming =
>> assignments while all this is going on.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Sean
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>I was thinking you might want to patch the slackware system to be able
>to format the drive before reinstlling SuSE 6.2/6.3 without benefit of
>micro$oft. I skipped from slackware 3.4 to slackware 7, so I didn't
>notice what was in slackware 4. It might very well not help, but I
>would try it before giving up. The patch files are small. I could send
>all of them if you like.
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Thanks for the offer, but I've got Slack 7 here. Just haven't gotten
around to updating yet. Looking forward to it though, since it includes
the new glibc libraries.
Cheers,
Sean
Theo. Sean Schulze
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