On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:03:23 -0600,
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Alphonse Ogulla wrote:
Hi all,
I got this rather scary message when I booted up my Debian PC last
evening. First I noticed my hdd was making relatively more noise than
usual. I had removed it quite recently for use in backing-up data of
a windoze machine that was showing symptoms of imminent disk failure.
(discovered later that it wasn't actually the disk, but the IDE
cable). I connected this device as the master, booted Linux and
transfered all data on the ntfs partition to a newly created vfat
partition and returned the disk to where it belonged.
So, upon restarting Linux successfully, running fsck at boot, logging
in and using the machine for a while whilst listening to grinding
noises coming from the hdd, I heard this clicking sound just before
the light of the hdd went off. I then issued ls command to list
directory contents but what I got was a sequence of lost interrupt
messages;
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
and so on..
I'm 99.32749% sure your hard drive is failing; it's just a coincidence
that it happened just after making some partition changes (or perhaps
the partition changes caused the head to move into the trigger zone,
which triggered the failure).
Backup your drive now, if you can (I really don't have a whole lot of
confidence that you'll get everything).
..it could _also_ be the power coming from the grid, Alphonse.
..an UPS would fix that bit.
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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