Hello, 1) Thanks Johaness for the ntfs remark, I will set it to read-only !
2) Regarding smartmontools, it was installed on laptop1 before the crash and showed nothing strange I think, here is however (below) the result of the check I did today on laptop1. On laptop2, smartctl does not work because smart is not supported without a kernel patch I did not applied (see http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/#testinghelp ) but the disk is ok I suppose because it is a new computer (ibm thinkpad r52). I installed the sata support with some difficulties in laptop2 (described in my post 28th november 2005 in this list). The problem was to have sata enabled at the same time than have a functional dvd reader in etch. Finally I found a solution: - boot in expert mode for installation - disable the ata_piix module, this will allow you to have your cd driver recognized - after some menus, debian installer will ask you again if ata_piix module must be enabled. Say yes this time. Your sata disk is now working. - finish the installation and reboot - now your cd drive is not working - change your /etc/mkinitrd/modules files (put there the ide* modules necessary for your cd drive) - run mkinitrd command to rebuild your initrd - remove the ide* modules from /etc/modules - reboot, now both cd and disk are ok. 3) Regarding the contents of syslog, I saw also nothing strange in laptop1, I searched for hda* but nothing strange. The only think I saw is that the disk in laptop1 is always around 53degreesC, which is maybe too high? In laptop2 I can not say which is the temperature because of the sata problem with smart. I will look to laptop2 syslog today. It seems that I can not post the content of syslog (even part of it) to this list due to some restriction in the size of the allowed mails? 4) Thanks ! Juan. ------------------------------------------------------------- ON LAPTOP1: #smartctl -A /dev/hda smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000d 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 51 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 3950 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1912 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 932 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 1224 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 4066h+47m 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1876 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 285 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 077 077 000 Old_age Always - 143904/143618 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 076 052 000 Old_age Always - 52 (Lifetime Min/Max 64/8) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 230 Head_Amplitude 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 198978 250 Read_Error_Retry_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 330 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
