Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for both answers. I effectively removed the very old one, installed at its place a brand new HDD. This way, I disconnected the one which was SMART-recognized as sick, and put a new one which now contains /home/* This looks perfect, I just had t

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these > freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such > messages: > > == > smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-

HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-

Re: hdd problems

1998-02-10 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Did you tag the Drive/partition you want to boot as active? On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or, > perhaps the kernel is loading but the "root" device is wrong. I'm guessing > this is the case since I wouldn't expe

Re: hdd problems

1998-02-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or, perhaps the kernel is loading but the "root" device is wrong. I'm guessing this is the case since I wouldn't expect very elaborate messages such as you site below from LILO. When you get to where LILO prints hit scroll-lock to

Re: hdd problems

1998-02-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
> I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95% > of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows: > /dev/hda Windows (master primary controller) > /dev/hdb Debian (slave primary controller) > /dev/hdc CD-ROM (master secondar

hdd problems

1998-02-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95% of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows: /dev/hdaWindows (master primary controller) /dev/hdbDebian (slave primary controller) /dev/hdcCD-ROM (master seconda