Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:27 PM 7/11/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How does one decompile a hard drive? With a hammer? Wdc is a diagnostic program that "fixes" your WD drive. >I could be wrong, but I highly recommend Western Digital EIDE drives. I've had nothing but bad (truly horrible - 100% data loss) exper

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wagner
At 11:27 PM 7/11/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How does one decompile a hard drive? With a hammer? Wdc is a diagnostic program that "fixes" your WD drive. >I could be wrong, but I highly recommend Western Digital EIDE drives. I've had nothing but bad (truly horrible - 100% data loss) expe

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-12 Thread Art Sackett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:52:19AM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > WD is bad, they're a bad bad company. Anyone who has a WD drive in their > server should take it out and THROW IT AWAY. I don't trust wdc as far as I > can decompile it. On any file system. How does one decompile a hard drive? With

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
WD is bad, they're a bad bad company. Anyone who has a WD drive in their server should take it out and THROW IT AWAY. I don't trust wdc as far as I can decompile it. On any file system. At 10:39 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > >Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will run on a drive regardless of what data is contained. It's harmless, it will not mess with the partion. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: | Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) -- ___ _ __

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) At 09:59 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: >Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a >floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. > >WD has this and requires some use

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. WD has this and requires some users to run the util and report an error code before RMA... check with your drive mfgr for their policy. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
You can try running fsck and badblocks to attempt to fix the errors. But I've never had luck with either of those tools on a drive that was dieing. If the errors remain, there's a 99% probability the drive is bad. At 11:54 PM 7/10/00 -0400, JoeCool wrote: >Hi, > >I'm getting some Input/Output err

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Art Sackett
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:52:19AM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > WD is bad, they're a bad bad company. Anyone who has a WD drive in their > server should take it out and THROW IT AWAY. I don't trust wdc as far as I > can decompile it. On any file system. How does one decompile a hard drive? Wit

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
WD is bad, they're a bad bad company. Anyone who has a WD drive in their server should take it out and THROW IT AWAY. I don't trust wdc as far as I can decompile it. On any file system. At 10:39 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > >Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility wil

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Huh? Western Digitals drive test utility will run on a drive regardless of what data is contained. It's harmless, it will not mess with the partion. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner wrote: | Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) -- ___ _ __

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
Heheh, there is NO WAY in HELL I would run wdc on an ext2 partition. :) At 09:59 PM 7/11/00 -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: >Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a >floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. > >WD has this and requires some us

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Depending on the mfgr of the drive, you should be able to boot off a floppy and run a utility to 'check' the drive for errors. WD has this and requires some users to run the util and report an error code before RMA... check with your drive mfgr for their policy. On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Chris Wagner

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Chris Wagner
You can try running fsck and badblocks to attempt to fix the errors. But I've never had luck with either of those tools on a drive that was dieing. If the errors remain, there's a 99% probability the drive is bad. At 11:54 PM 7/10/00 -0400, JoeCool wrote: >Hi, > >I'm getting some Input/Output er

RE: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Robert H. Clugston
Subject: Re: Harddrive Errors Hello, I once tried a newer hard drive on an old motherboard. I think the hard drive was spinning down (power saving) and the motherboard treated it as an error. It may just be a bad drive. If that is the case, it will die in the next couple of days anyway. Best of

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > > what I should do? you seem to have more than one;) scsi device in your system. is that drive the only one with errors on it's scsi rib

RE: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Robert H. Clugston
: Harddrive Errors Hello, I once tried a newer hard drive on an old motherboard. I think the hard drive was spinning down (power saving) and the motherboard treated it as an error. It may just be a bad drive. If that is the case, it will die in the next couple of days anyway. Best of luck

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Dariush Pietrzak
> > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > > what I should do? you seem to have more than one;) scsi device in your system. is that drive the only one with errors on it's scsi ri

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Gregory Wood
Hello, I once tried a newer hard drive on an old motherboard. I think the hard drive was spinning down (power saving) and the motherboard treated it as an error. It may just be a bad drive. If that is the case, it will die in the next couple of days anyway. Best of luck. *** REPLY SE

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-11 Thread Gregory Wood
Hello, I once tried a newer hard drive on an old motherboard. I think the hard drive was spinning down (power saving) and the motherboard treated it as an error. It may just be a bad drive. If that is the case, it will die in the next couple of days anyway. Best of luck. *** REPLY S

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread vasil
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, JoeCool wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > what I should do? > > Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? The harddrive'

Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread JoeCool
Hi, I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and what I should do? Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? $ls ls: methods: Input/output error ls: status: Input/output error

Re: Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread vasil
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, JoeCool wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog > on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and > what I should do? > > Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? The harddrive

Harddrive Errors

2000-07-10 Thread JoeCool
Hi, I'm getting some Input/Output error messages and also messages in the syslog on a server about the harddrive. Anyone have any ideas on whats wrong and what I should do? Is the harddrive bad? Or do I just need to run fsck ? $ls ls: methods: Input/output error ls: status: Input/output erro