On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 01:27, Marty wrote: > It could be a spin-up problem due to a worn out motor.
Right. It is actually something like that that's my primary suspect. > This would > probably be reported by smartctl from the package smartmontools. Ah, thanks for the pointer! Got the daemon installed now, and did a run, I'm seeing these errors: Error 149 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1024 hours (42 days + 16 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. Error 148 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1024 hours (42 days + 16 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. Error 147 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1017 hours (42 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. Error 146 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1017 hours (42 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. Error 145 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1017 hours (42 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. Does that mean anything to you....? > It's also possible that your power supply can't handle the powerup > surge, and this can also mimic the motor spin-up problem. I've > recently had this problem. Try swapping the power supply, preferable > with a more powerful one. OK, it could be, but I put my hand in there last night after Alvin's post, and again this morning after power-up, and the PSU is cool, so it is nothing to indicate it is over-heated, at least. Furthermore, it is a 340W PSU, which should, according to spec, give more than enough power for my system, unless it is something wrong with it, of course... Is there any way I can measure the actual consumption? It would be interesting from several perspectives. I don't have a more powerful PSU available, and the cost of that means it gets even harder to decide what is the right thing to do... Since I need a larger disk anyway... Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
