Hi, I was working on my machine this morning (fixing a fan). I pulled the side panel off before turning the thing off, and watched in horror as one of the IDC power connectors brushed against some pins on the motherboard (the gameport header). A couple sparks flew before I was able to grab the swinging power cable and turn the computer off. After fixing the fan, crossing my fingers, and turning the machine back on-- all seemed to be well.
I don't know if it was a coincidence, but... somehow my second internal hard disk didn't mount at startup. Trying to mount by hand revealed that udev hadn't identified a valid partition table on /dev/sdb . I fired up smartctl, and sure enough the drive was accessible, and all SMART parameters appeared OK. Except a couple: Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 060 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1233573 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 108 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 17159523 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 023 020 000 Old_age Always - 17159523 Other than the non-zero values, SMART didn't report any problems, even after a long, off-line test. Wondering what was wrong with the partition table, I re-made a new table based on my notes: a single partition using the entire drive. I was then able to mount the XFS file system. I have no idea how the partition table got hosed. I can now work with the disk just as I had before, even as much as starting a virtual machine from an image on this disk... Could the hosed partition table been caused by the near catastrophic sparking, or indicative of possible disk failure. This disk is nearly brand new. Any ideas? Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech