An update on this (see long quote below) --- maybe it helps someone
with a similar problem:
After a total disk failure seemed imminent --- the disconnected disk
didn't come back after turning the computer off and back on --- I got
two new disks to replace the Maxtor 7V300F0 disks. I made a softwar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:05:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -020
On Saturday 03 January 2009 23:05:01 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Ed
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > > lee wrote:
> > > > > Well, how do yo
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > lee wrote:
> > > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access
> > > >
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > lee wrote:
> > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access
> > > them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk,
> > >
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> lee wrote:
> > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access
> > them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk,
> > but I haven't had a floppy disk drive for years ... With no sy
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11:59PM +, Aneurin Price wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee wrote:
> > Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for
> > the particular controller but something else. That people with all
> > kinds of different hardware have this pro
lee wrote:
> Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access
> them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk,
> but I haven't had a floppy disk drive for years ... With no system
> installed, you couldn't create those disks anyway.
>
You should be
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:29:28AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> lee wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if I could use a pre-built Debian kernel: the installer
> > couldn't access the SATA disks because it didn't have the module for
> > the controller, and a pre-built standard Debian kernel might not ha
Aneurin Price wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee wrote:
>> Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for
>> the particular controller but something else. That people with all
>> kinds of different hardware have this problem supports this theory.
>>
>> Hm, and I h
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee wrote:
> Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for
> the particular controller but something else. That people with all
> kinds of different hardware have this problem supports this theory.
>
> Hm, and I haven't seen anyone using Debi
lee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>>
>> do you have custom kernel or debian stock kernel.
>
> Until today, I was using a standard kernel from kernel.org. Today I
> downloaded the package with the Debian kernel sources (2.6.24, blah
> etchnhalf or someth
2008/12/13 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. :
> On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote:
>>2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. :
>>> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :(
>>
>>I'm not using any access restrictions
>>on the access point itself, it's basically open.
>
> Both the APs I need to de
On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote:
>2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. :
>> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :(
>
>I'm not using any access restrictions
>on the access point itself, it's basically open.
Both the APs I need to deal with regularly are WPA Personal.
>Mine is
2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. :
> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :(
I have been using 2.6.27.7 for a while now, seems pretty stable. With
a plain debian kernel 2.6.26 I would somwtimes have to press the wifi
kill switch to kill the driver and press it again to get it to
associate with
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:58:55PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > One option I haven't tried yet is to plug both SATA disks into the
> > same channel (i. e. use adjacent plugs). I didn't do that because they
> > might be blocking each other ---
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> >
> > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just
> > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I
> > could be wrong), especiall
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>
> do you have custom kernel or debian stock kernel.
Until today, I was using a standard kernel from kernel.org. Today I
downloaded the package with the Debian kernel sources (2.6.24, blah
etchnhalf or something like that ...), conf
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:35:06 -0800
"Kelly Clowers" wrote:
...
> For more than you want to know about binary firmware blobs see the
> thread "Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?"
> and related threads on debian devel:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/10/msg0036
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
>
> well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just
> seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I
> could be wrong), especially with stock standard stuff
Unfortunately, that the selftests
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 14:53, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
>> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
>> > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
>> >>> what's t
lee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote:
>
>> I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll
>> let you know the result.
>
> cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
> smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8
> Bru
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:39:01PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote:
>
> > I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll
> > let you know the result.
>
> cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
> smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-un
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote:
> I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll
> let you know the result.
cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
Allen
Home page is htt
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:37:57PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> have you tried smartctl -H and smartctl -t short|long
>
Yes, there doesn't seem to be anything unusual:
cat:/home/lee# smartctl -H /dev/sdb
smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
Allen
Home pag
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:14:37PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote:
> > If you can find enough people with the same problems and co-ordinate, you
> > might be able to reduce the amoun
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 03:15:56PM -0600, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
[snip]
> smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family: Maxtor MaXLine III family
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 19:14:37 lee wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> If
> >> time is what it takes to reproduce, that's fine -- just figure out what a
> >> good upp
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 19:14:37 lee wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> If
>> time is what it takes to reproduce, that's fine -- just figure out what a
>> good upper bound is. Is 1 day long enough without drops long enough to
>> say the kernel
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:27AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.12.10.2215 +0100]:
> > I'm using a standard kernel, but I'm having problems with one of my
> > disks (see below).
> [...]
>
> > So is there a difference between Debian and standard kernels
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote:
> >But I'm wondering how many people have this problem. There are
> >probably lots of people with SATA disks, and if most of them had this
> >problem, it might have already he
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 16:21:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
[...]
>>> The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available)
>>> parts removed. There are also Debian-specific patc
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote:
>But I'm wondering how many people have this problem. There are
>probably lots of people with SATA disks, and if most of them had this
>problem, it might have already heen solved. If lots of people have
>SATA disks but don't have this problem, I mig
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:16:24 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Different interpretations of the GPLv2, I suppose. Linus seems fine with
...
> Anyway, that's why Debian sometimes removes features from the vanilla
> kernel -- the considered (voted on, IIRC) opinio
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:57:39 Ron Johnson wrote:
>On 12/10/08 16:53, Celejar wrote:
>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
>> what's
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:10:16 Celejar wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
>
>"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
>> >what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
>> >comes as a Debian package?
also sprach lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.12.10.2215 +0100]:
> I'm using a standard kernel, but I'm having problems with one of my
> disks (see below).
[...]
> So is there a difference between Debian and standard kernels so
> that I might not have this problem if I'd use a Debian kernel? Has
> thi
On 12/10/08 16:53, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
what's the d
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
> > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
> >>> what's the difference betwe
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:05:26PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >So is there a difference between Debian and standard kernels so that I
> >might not have this problem if I'd use a Debian kernel?
>
> Not that I know of.
Hm, maybe I'll just try one and see what happens.
> Yeah, it's a
On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
comes as a Debian package?
The Debian kernel has some non
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
> >what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
> >comes as a Debian package?
>
> The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 15:15:56 lee wrote:
>what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
>comes as a Debian package?
The Debian kernel has some non-free (as in: source not available) parts
removed. There are also Debian-specific patches added.
>So is there a differen
Hi,
what's the difference between a standard kernel and a kernel that
comes as a Debian package?
I'm using a standard kernel, but I'm having problems with one of my
disks (see below). The disk "gets lost" every now and then, i. e. it
seems to take a couple days or weeks now (I've seen it taking a
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