-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I put together my first Debian system 11 months ago. It's been a wonderful thing. The Debian community imho has created a manageable linux system.
Now for my problem. Things ran fine (minus my stupid dinking) for 11 months. After a recent upgrade to sid, the hard drive started clicking nastily. Then one day it started clicking repeatedly and nastily and the machine halted. I suspected that the hard drive had just had a flaw and the heads crashed. Then it wouldn't reboot. Wouldn't even run lilo. Not wanting to stop working on what pays my bills. I ran down to comp usa and bought a new harddrive (different brand mind you) and had a Debian system up and running in about 2 days (good thing I use a remote server for all my critical data which has an even remoter backup). This inspired me to get a backup plan together which I did. Now 2 weeks later, this drive started clicking away and crashed in the same manner. This time (glad I had a backup), I decided to try harder to get the system running again. I managed to get a rescue floppy running and reran lilo to rewrite the boot sector (this was harder than I thought it would be, but thank you backup). The machine came back up. Now I had used hdparm in a boot script to make it run full-tilt. I removed that from the current configuration and I'm running in the old slow manner. I can tell a noticeable difference. The clicking is gone (for now). I'm going to slowly crank it back up one parameter a week till it starts clicking again. What could be causing this disaster? Any clues. Anyone else have the same problem? Why would it work fine for 11 months, upgrade, then the same problem with two different drives? I'm really stumped as to what's happening. I don't have a separate /boot partition on the harddrive. Shawn - -- Public Key available from http://www.garbett.org/public-key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7+qBhDtpPjAQxZ6ARAiOrAJ9+VG5+QB9murpPZQ0Z0nImSj2HVgCdFGnm Z+zuhXpwA7wHeKOw/pddy7A= =mI15 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
