Maybe you got a problem on your filesystem. Try formating it completely and see if you still have these problems, and/or check for bad blocks, these can cause quite a few problems specially if theres a lot of them :S.
2009/8/20 Kyle Jansen <makerofthega...@gmail.com> > Since I'm the only one on my mod, I just have an ancient (P3-era > Celeron, GeForce 2, 384 megs of RAM) PC working as a Samba server. > Every time I do major work, I copy it over. So when my main computer's > hard drive started acting up, I didn't lose any mod code. I've got an > identical hard drive in an external enclosure, and that's currently > backing up minor stuff like gamesaves and bookmarks. > > My HDD problems are rather peculiar. I had been moving a directory > from one partition to another, and mid-move, accidentally slept it. I > wasn't really doing anything, so I just left it. An hour later when I > booted it up, it hung about a minute after starting. When I did a hard > reset, it failed to boot up. I tried doing a CHKDSK and everything, no > dice. At that point I started worrying, and booted off a Linux CD to > back up files to an external. > > Some of the files gave me I/O errors when copying. Most of them were > ones that were being moved when it slept, but it was just a copy of > the Sauerbraten code, so I wasn't worried. Then some of them were > completely unrelated, stuff I haven't accessed in months. > > I'm going to try to repair it, maybe try a full low-level format, but > does this sound like an imminent hardware failure to anyone, or does > it seem like just a trashed filesystem? > > Posted from said antique samba server. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
