Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:56:07
Message-Id: 002401c71704$06c26660$6900a8c0@donahues
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 ----- Original Message -----
2 From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
3 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
4 Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:04 PM
5 Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk
6
7
8 > "Guido Doornberg" <guidodoornberg@×××××.com> posted
9 > eb2db630612030540k38b658b2q3571a712efc510d0@××××××××××.com, excerpted
10 > below, on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:40:11 +0100:
11 >
12 >> Well, I downloaded and started a fresh 2006.1 livecd, repartitioned de
13 >> hdd, started mke2fs and this time with the -c option.
14 >>
15 >> So, it started checking and after about 15 minutes this kept on showing
16 >> up
17 >> on my screen:
18 >>
19 >> ata1: error=ox40 {uncorrectable error} ata1: translated ATA stat/err
20 >> 0X51/40 SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
21 >>
22 >> after a while i got a couple of other messages, and now it keeps on
23 >> talking about Buffer I/O error on device sda3, and after that various
24 >> sectors and blocks are called.
25 >>
26 >> I did look after my power supply and I'm for 99% sure that's not the
27 >> problem. So, correct me if i'm wrong but that would mean my harddisk is
28 >> the problem? But how than is it possible that I can use it normally if I
29 >> don't let fsck check it?
30 >>
31 >> I know this isn't really gentoo specific anymore, but if anyone knows
32 >> what
33 >> to do i'm happy to hear it.
34
35 visit
36 http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/warranty/index.htm
37 and get replacement
38 current crop of spinpoint is getting bad reports for reliability
39
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