Well, I used Windows to check the S.M.A.R.T. and all is good. Besides if there were a connection problem, Windows 7 would be at best capriciously unstable and other distros / live-cds would have disk access problems.
The unstable Nov 1 NixOS has the exact same problem and I even repeated this with the i686 version although I believe my Core 2 Duo 7200 belongs to the x86-64 class (if only barely). One of my problems is not knowing how to stop things scrolling off the screen. (It should be noted that I had the sequence of the eternally repeated error message triplet wrong - the exception is first, then the irq-stat and last the SError.) The errors present immediately after the nixos login prompt is displayed. Best to have full disclosure on the drive. It is a Seagate ST2000DX001-1CM164 with 2 TB (really 1.8) capacity and 64 MB cache, but it is also a hybrid with an 8 GB nand flash front end. Rearranging the deck chairs (partitions) with the gparted live-cd so that the extended partition reaches the end of the drive made no difference (although the Windows system 'feels' faster, which may simply be a placebo effect). What more can I do? It seems pointless to attempt a NixOS install using the Linux Mint live-cd as sooner or later, the NixOS build will have to be booted and most likely will contain the same problem. Thanks for your interest. On 2014-11-02 23:37, Raahul Kumar wrote: > Use smartctl, and check that the hard drive cable is properly seated. > That seems to have fixed the same issue for previous people who had > this problem > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129401 > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135306 > > If the hard drive is fine, the download the newest Nixos from here > > https://nixos.org/releases/nixos/unstable/nixos-14.11pre51857.788a77d/ > > Burn it to a dvd or usb stick and retry. Are you in business now > > Aloha, > RK. > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
