Florian Philipp wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 10:08:29 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just in case, you may want to try this:

# grub  <--Also use --no-floppy if it hangs probing a floppy drive
that doesn't exist-->
grub> root (hd2,0)  <--If your /boot drive is e.g. in /dev/hdd1)-->
grub> setup (hd0)  <--This will re-install GRUB in the MBR
grub> of /dev/hda--> quit

If this does not help then I am not sure what else might fix it.

I thought I had already done this but just to make sure, I've done it
again - no effect.

If there is really some kind to self-test going on, it's invisible to
smartctl. A short self-test showed no errors, either.

I'll look out for firmware updates for that disk and will buy a small
SD/MMC/CF-card for testing. Maybe I'll also ask the Grub-guys whether
they have any ideas.

Thanks anyway! At least I know it's not just me who is confused by this
behavior.

From the man page:

smartctl -t long /dev/hdc
Begin an extended self-test of drive /dev/hdc. You can issue this command on a running system. The results can be seen in the self-test log visible with the ´-l selftest´ option after it has completed.

I run that from time to time myself.  It takes a while tho.

Dale

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