Hi,
I've been facing a strange problem three times today : the 20GB hard disk of my 550MHz TiBook made a very noisy sound (like some sort of brutal spin down), obviously went down, and ... never up : at that moment I could not perform any kind of disk access (sync stays hanged, I can not run any command, etc.). The only solution was to power-cycle the machine, after which everything goes fine again ... till next hang of the hard disk (3 times today). I have been using this machine extensively for the past two weeks, from the moment I bought it, and never experienced this problem. I am running a stock 2.4.19-pre7 kernel, Debian unstable, had no trouble of this kind ever since today, and the hangs did not occur while the machine was idle (so it's not power management, I guess). I am running pmud, but I do not know if it has some hard disk saving features, apart from spin down at suspend ... I've heard that the TiBook's hard disks were known to easily break. Some people told me though that this could be simply a software problem and recommended me to try a benh kernel ... although I never had a problem with this plain one. Has any of you had trouble with the TiBook's hard disk ? Should I try some other non-experimental (or more experimental ;) kernel to avoid more random hangs ? Thanks, -- Thomas Seyrat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
