> I can totally confirm Benjamin's analysis.
>
> I also have lost a disk (2.5" Seagate Momentus 5400.2) to the
> load/unload problem. It was used in a Mac Mini running as a server (thus
> powered on 24x7).
>
> As said, the solution to this is setting the power management
> configuration via hdparm'
Hi Benjamin, Hermann Kaiser. Hi All
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit :
> > Could this also be a simple file system damage?
>
> Errors like that (i.e. in the middle of a DMA interrupt) are not simple
Hi all,
On 3 Oct, this message from Benjamin Cama echoed through cyberspace:
> But what worries me most is the Load_Cycle_Count value : 2898441 is
> far too high for a disk, but may look real, as your disk as been
> spinning for quite some time (1+ hours). This roughly corresponds
> to a loa
Wow, Benjamin, your effort to help is definitely more than I could
expect from a mailing list .. :)
Thanks for lot: I think I learned a few things with your explanations
...
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit :
> Could this also be a simple file system damage?
Errors like that (i.e. in the middle of a DMA interrupt) are not simple
FS damage, I am pretty sure.
> I was hoping it was just something like that, because this hopefully
> could
Hi Benjamin, hi All
Benjamin, firstly Thanks for your effort ..
OK, and the question I was asking is answered: I took a Fedora 9 CD
for ppc, booted the affected machine, and found, Fedora has the tools
one needs for a disk recovery. smartctrl is there, plus dumpe2fs, and
even "less" (which I was
Le mercredi 01 octobre 2008 à 22:29 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit :
> Excerpt from the Debian install syslog, cut:
>
> kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=76724680,
> high=4, low=9615816, secto
Hi Gaudenz
Thanks a lot for your response.
After quite a few tests I'm still stuck with a non-loading root
partition.
That is, I get to the first boot prompt from where I can choose to
start a CD, Linux or OS X. Both the CD and OS X can be booted. Linux
doesn't boot.
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:
Hi
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that
> partition went belly up on me. e2fsck tells me something like the
> superblock could not be read ...
>
> The Debian install CD (Etch) does no
Hi All
I can't e2fsck my root partition any more - looks seriously like that
partition went belly up on me. e2fsck tells me something like the
superblock could not be read ...
The Debian install CD (Etch) does not have dumpe2fs - which normally
should yield information of the partition backup sup
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