--- Shawn Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dumb questions:
>
> If /dev/hde1 spewed read errors, how were you able to copy it's data
> to
> /dev/hda4? Did you first delete the iso images?
>
> How did the iso images have anything to do with the drive failure?
I was attempting to download the SuSE ISOs about 2 weeks ago, and the
download always failed at a certain percentage. I had contacted Doug
privately about this and at the time he was unable to figure out why.
>
> Shawn
>
>
> > I quick rundown:
> > /dev/hde1 started flaking.
> > /dev/hda had to be converted back from ext3 to ext2 so that:
> > parted was used to shrink /dev/hda3. freespace was used to create
> /dev/hda4
> > so that:
> > data from /dev/hde1 was copied to /dev/hda4.
> > /dev/hda converted back to ext3
> >
>
> > you can bet on it. trying to move those isos to another drive spewed
> > read
> > errors...
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