On Sunday 06 May 2018 19:19:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > The rain finally deteriorated to a light mist today, and I've been > waiting for weather dry enough to work outside so I could work on an > alu panel as a table top on my shop buildings deck. The hd in the > machine running the little mill has gone ro for the 4th time in about > as many months, and I suspected the red sata cables. > > So this afternoon I opened it up and replaced the cable to sda, then > had to do an e2fsck to all partitions, fixing a lot of stuffs. Put it > back together, and found the cable to the dvd writer, also red, was > also gone. Opened it and replaced that red cable and made a tall > backplate for a 5i25 and installed it too. > > So now I am out of excuses to delay converting it from sw stepping to > hardware. But dmesg is full of errors from that drive again, which is > not a surprise as when I powered it up again, either the hd or the > front panel fan I had installed sounded like its bearings were toast. > Its not yet gone ro, but I'm now waiting for the other shoe to drop. I > have a 64Gig SSD that will replace it when that happens.
Turns out an ata2 reset is being logged about every 2 seconds. However, ata2 is the dvd-writer. Not the junk 250 GB hd, several copies of which have already failed here. Looks like I have to pull it down and see whats going on with the dvd tomorrow if the weather permits. Drives and drive cables will yet be the end of me. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
