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On Monday 28 March 2005 12:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
What file system were you using?
How is the power source the systems are connected to?
The laptop is battery powered but was plugged into the wall. The MSI box is not currently connected to a UPS.
I have one location that I have to use a power condictioner, a UPS that does VAR,
or a constant voltage transformer if I want systems to keep working. The
voltage there dips low enough to give systems under load problems. I get
lockups, but file corruption wouldn't suprise me.
Nothing concerning power source would supprise me here in Tampa. Tampa is the leading capital of lightning in the US.
If you don't mind risking a test system again, try doing the same transfere using tar or cp instead of mc, and see if you get the same problem.
Mikkel
I hate to say this but testing to see if I can burn up another HD is not exactly something I desire to do.
As far as the issue with the other HD I will continue to play with it.
From your post, it sounded like you only had file system corruption, and not hardware damage. Have you tried running the manufactures tests on the drive to see what they say? You can probably do a complete erase using their utilities, and have a drive you can partition again.
One thing I have found handy is to have a CD image of the drive in the test system. I make one using the SystemRescueCD or Norton Ghost of a fresh install + updates, before I start playing with it. That way, if worst comes to worst, I just start a restore going, and go do other things. Depending on the setup, I may have to come back to swap CDs, but other then that, it is a "hands off" install. If you have the hard drive space on a server, you can have the image saved to a hard drive, and restore across the network.
When I get some space time, I want to set up a PXE boot so I can restore everything over the network just by selecting "Network" from the system boot menu, or the BIOS. It shouldn't be much different then the setup I used to play with using Etherboot and boot EPROMS in a couple of network cards...
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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