Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote: From a log investigation you might be right. Bugger, it is a newish disk too. Better dig out the receipt and get ready to ask for a replacement. I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years without problems... Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). But the best defective harddisk/all harddisks ratio has samsung.. one drive, no problems so far ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thursday 25 August 2005 15:07, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2005 17:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years without problems... I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the first 2.5 years. -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:07:52PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, my new seagate died in the first week.. .the second one run for years without problems... Seagate = Sie geht oder sie geht nicht. (it works or not). If it is DOA or dies very soon, you can always demand they replace it. What I hate most is those Maxtor drives that dies just one month after the warranty expired. Also, Seagate's website has some nice diagnostic tools. My ex-roommate had this habit of slamming the doors. And The vibration sent through the thin wood paneling jerked my desktop just enough to start producing dead sectors. The Maxtor just started crapping out after the first dead sector is found, and there's no getting it back to life. The replacement Seagate suffered the same problem until I added some precautions (dampening the contact of computer with desk and desk with wall). But the diagnostic tool just swapped a few sectors from the back-up sectors and I'm all fine. W -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. - Ford in a spot of bother. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 21:37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. I also had a bad experience with Maxtor, though I admit I've only bought one in my life. But friends have also reported problems with Maxtore too. Ended up with the same read-only problem as the OP. It predictably occurred weekly after the emerge sync in cron. I use Seagate for SCSI, and WD for IDE/SATA and have never had a problem with either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thursday 25 August 2005 16:46, A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the drive is still detectable by the BIOS. Their warranty periods are 3 year and above now too. All you pay is postage back to Maxtor (in Ireland for the UK). I've sent 7-8 back, and had replacements about a week or so after returning them. 3 200's I sent back got replaced with 250's! No, I don't work for Maxtor! And yes, I avoid Maxtors now! -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: I had very bad experience with bigfoots, about 50% (of 10 or more) died on the first 2.5 years. That's not too bad compared to Maxtors. I have Seagate (SCSI) disks in servers that have been running for almost 5 years now... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Williams wrote: Maxtors RMA process is exceptionally quick and simple though, as long as the drive is still detectable by the BIOS. Sure - we have a *lot* of experience with their RMA process! Their warranty periods are 3 year and above now too. All you pay is postage back to Maxtor (in Ireland for the UK). Those replacement Maxtor drives are usually factory refurbished (its a great way to piss off your customers and make them use a competitor instead!). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find that /home has become readonly overnight. Basically I have to shut down X, manually kill all processes accessing /home and then run umount /home mount /home which fixes it until tomorrow morning. I also tried mount /home -o remount,rw but was told that /dev/hdb1 was readonly - but it has the same permissions as /dev/hda1. Any clues as to where to from here? I cannot even seem to isolate what time this is happening. Filesystem errors, maybe? That's why I was always getting read-only partitions... Run fsck on it. -- Replace the point in my email address with a period to reply. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:13, Matt Nordhoff wrote: On 08/24/05 15:59, Nick Rout wrote: For somewhere between 3 days and a week I have been rising to find that /home has become readonly overnight. Filesystem errors, maybe? That's why I was always getting read-only partitions... Run fsck on it. Also check dmesg. It should say exactly why the filesystem was made read-only. -- Jason Stubbs pgpC7yDfnCQPE.pgp Description: PGP signature
