On Tuesday 17 July 2001 18:19, Shawn Church babbled:
> 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?

deleted isos. used gnu parted to do a partition copy

>
> How did the iso images have anything to do with the drive failure?

they didn't directly. it's just that Llama noticed that suse iso #2 always 
errored in the same spot. that was an on-disk error

-- 
Douglas J. Hunley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Linux User #174778 
Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net/        Admin: http://linux.nf/ 
Brainbench Linux Administration Certified

~~ Now offering Linux admin services for the home user ~~

"I'd change the world, but God won't give me the source code..."
_______________________________________________
http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc 
->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Reply via email to