Sounds like its going. You can keep it, but backup frequently.
oh, run fsck on all partitions. Run scandisk through on all fat partitions.
Scan it well.
Quantum fireball. I got one of those :(
----- Original Message -----
From: David Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:13 PM
Subject: [newbie] Bad Scare! Hard drive jumped from case into trash bin.
> Hello,
>
> Well not quite, but is sure sounded like it was trying to escape!
>
> I was running netscape with several windows open (probably not hitting
swap)
> and suddenly the normal brrrrrrrp brrrp type sounds that comes from my
hard
> drive chaged to a loud and alarming RRRRRRRIP WHAK RRRRRRRRIP WHAK this
cycle
> repeated from about 25 seconds. The system was pretty well locked up at
this
> point, I could move the mouse but KDE was locked tight. I hit the reset
> switch and then after the bios screen I got a message that the HD was not
> ready and that I should insert a floppy if I wanted to boot. :-( Didn't
want
> to do that so I hit the power switch and let the thing sit for a minute
then
> tried it again. This time the system came up normally, fsck made some
> repairs, but it didn't seem like it did anything more than it has on a
couple
> of other occassions after the power has gone out unexpectedly. Anyhow, I
am
> using the system now and it seems fine.
>
> Any ideas what could have caused this? Is my new hard drive on the fast
track
> to the trash heap? Or could I have simply hit a nasty bug is some bit of
> software and it through my drive into convulsions?
>
> BTW I did backup my data and some config files.
>
> The drive: 30GB EIDE ULTRA-ATA 66 3.5LP QUANTUM FIREBALL Plus LM
>
> [root@crank david]# hdparm /dev/hda
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 16 (on)
> I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 3649/255/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0
>
> Thanks Much
> David Nelson
>
