Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-04 Thread Erling Westenvik
Thank you to everyone @misc that provided support and advice. Especially Joel and Barry. It turned out that the machine came back on quite fine after rebooting and without having to perform anything special. It went through fsck without complaining and I've been able to make backups of my small pi

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:03:07AM +1100, Joel Sing wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it > > > ASAP > > > > No no, that's all right. Dea

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Joel Sing
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it ASAP > > No no, that's all right. Death is an inevitable part of life. I know the > disk is dying and I'm going

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it ASAP No no, that's all right. Death is an inevitable part of life. I know the disk is dying and I'm going to replace it (or just throw away the machine which i

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > post a exact dmesg i.e atleast the head -10 (top 10 lines). softraid guys > (jsing@) will then know what changed exactly and when. Thanks. The reason I ask is because I have no way of getting into ddb unless I reboot - which is what

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
Oh, and the machine runs 5.1 or 5.2 release... On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 01:13:16AM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB > keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more > than just testing. However, I started put

Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more than just testing. However, I started putting a few cvs repositories on it and slowly the machine became somewhat important. Today, when doing a cvs import of a