On Wednesday 17 December 2008 09:37, rohit bhute wrote: > Hi friends. > > Does Linux auto-powerdown a SATA hard-disk, if none of its > partitions are being used/mounted? I have a WD 250GB drive on a > SATA port, with ext3 partitions. 2-3 times I heard swishing sounds > and clicks. This morning I fired up the Partition editor after one > such event and found that the drive was not listed in the partition > editor. A reboot fixed the problem. > > Another issue was I am getting 'could not read block <7-8 digit > number>' errors (which would terminate all the operations) when I > tried to merge two partitions on this drive - by deleting one and > growing the other. I got same error when I deleted the second one > and created a new one of size equal to sum of earlier drives. I > succeeded when I tried again second time. > > I monitored the drive for 2-3 hours this morning by frequently > loading the partition editor, but it appeared in the editor without > fail. > > Is a HDD failure imminent?
Most likely yes. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
