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
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 -0200,
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, Eduardo M
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
them? It
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 you install on
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 system
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,
but I
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 have
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 able
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11:59PM +, Aneurin Price wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de 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
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de 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
Aneurin Price wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de 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.
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 something like
2008/12/13 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bs...@volumehost.net:
On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote:
2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bs...@volumehost.net:
iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :(
I'm not using any access restrictions
on the access point itself, it's basically open.
2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bs...@volumehost.net:
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
On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote:
2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bs...@volumehost.net:
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
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
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
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
Bruce Allen
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 14:53, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:21:26 -0600
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
On 12/10/08 16:10, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:05:26 -0600
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bs...@volumehost.net wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December
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 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:35:06 -0800
Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com 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:
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 ...),
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), especially 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 --- this
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 as
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 difference
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 available)
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
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 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 between a standard
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
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
this
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?
The Debian
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 the difference between a
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) opinion that
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 might
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 patches added.
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 heen
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 so
that
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 is good?
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 upper bound
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 07:14:37PM -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 amount of
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:37:57PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
have you tried smartctl -H device and smartctl -t short|long
device
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
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