On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -0000, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine > > till now. > > If you don't have hdparm spinning down your drives, odds are you are > looking at the early stages of a hrd drive failure.
Early? One of the blocks on the drive just "went away". It's most likely unrecoverable. Moreover, it's not just a block that wasn't used at all, because otherwise, the kernel wouldn't have requested it from the drive. So, Andrew: Get your data off that drive ASAP, consider the drive a "goner" until proven otherwise. (Some people are giving lots of possibilities of the drive not giving the ghost. I find this dangerous: If I'd get lots of advice "it could be this or that", which all indicate that the data will be safe on the drive, I'd consider checking that out while in fact I should be backing up the data that can still be read from the drive. Andrew already got his important data off the drive. Good. But for the others: You might end up feeling very sorry if you push someone with a faulty drive into checking out a couple of other possiblities before they try to backup their data, and it's too late....) Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* * The Worlds Ecosystem is a stable system. Stable systems may experience * * excursions from the stable situation. We are currently in such an * * excursion: The stable situation does not include humans. *************** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]