Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I should provide more of an explanation... I am not saying all IBM > drives are junk. I do still recommend people with Deskstar 75GXP, 60GXP, > and 120GXP models find replacements and use them instead.
Just to clarify, I absolutely agreed with that recommendation. I was just saying that there have been lots of _other_ IBM Deskstar and Ultrastar models, not members of those series, that have been just fine. > As easy as Redhat and 2000 may be to load and configure... > If you consider either the time or the hassle trade-off, > of reinstalling and reconfiguring > both operating systems and associated application suites, > and later reloading the data files > (those which were remembered at backup time)... > then I am certain that the method used was far superior. > ;) I can't speak to Win2k, having little relevant experience. However "reconfiguring" for the Linux side could be nothing more that migrating and unpacking a tarball of /etc. > Two points: > - The filesystems were unstable: > they were marked as unclean and e2fsck could not run over the partitions > due to bad blocks. Mounting them could have been possible with -fr, but > ext3 tries to replay the journal even in readonly mode... and I didn't > want to risk more corruption. I didn't try to fight it (*). > - "cp" places more stress on the drive, and handles errors badly. Yeah, good points. I usually aim to get things off at the _first_ signs of drive trouble -- which from evidence cited would have been a lot earlier. Doing a "dd" of the partition and piping it over ssh to another box might have been useful. > When I arrived at the machine it was booting into Linux and a prior > unsuccessful shutdown had flagged the unclean bit on the root filesystem. > The e2fsck failed due to bad blocks... and it dumped us into the 'root > password: please, repair the filesystem prompt". The root filesystem had > been mounted in read-only mode... Really bad juju. I think I'd have called in an exorcist. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
