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On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> >> The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly |
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> >> because the mouse is still alive but I can no longer ssh in and cannot |
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> >> open a terminal on my wife's desktop or get to the console. |
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> > because it is not crashed but waiting for the ide timeouts. |
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> So if I let it continue running is it going to come back in the next |
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> hour or two? |
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yes |
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> I am assuming the IDE timeouts are because the drive is |
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> having trouble, correct? That's the theory here? |
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yes |
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> If so then unless the software can mark them bad and somehow create good |
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files out of bad |
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> then I'm still left with a machine that is going to need serious work |
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> done before it's a happy box again, correct? |
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and with 'serious work' you mean 'replace the harddisk' ... |
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> On the other hand, because I have reasonably good user backups |
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> (although no real system backups) right now if I bite the bullet and |
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> build the machine then when my wife gets it back it's hopefully going |
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> to be more reliable, wouldn't it? |
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yes |
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> I'm thinking that maybe I just copy a little stuff off the box - /etc |
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> and the like - and then boot the machine with the Gentoo install CD or |
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> System Resuce CD and see what the drive is doing? |
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you could do that. |
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> That doesn't cost me anything to look around, but if SMART won't turn |
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> on and badblocks is suggesting the drive is having trouble maybe |
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> running something like badblocks and actually __marking__ blocks as |
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> bad and then reloading Gentoo would work in the long run? (A lot of |
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> work though.) |
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you would need to save the badblocks to a file, than feed that file to mkfs. And |
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you are not even save - because when a drive starts to have bad blocks the |
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chance that more are popping up some is pretty high. So you might be lucky and |
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the drive is able to run for a long while (even maybe mapping out bad blocks |
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while testing them - so always run badblocks twice), but you have at least a |
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as a good chance that the whole thing starts over in a couple of weeks. |
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> I'm really not interested in buying new drive because the machine is |
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> ATA100/133 and if it's not the drive then the money is wasted for a |
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> new machine. The cheapest at NewEgg is about $40. Why spend the buck |
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> for an old Intel Centrino machine? |
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you could take the drive with you when you buy a new machine. Moving harddisks |
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is not that hard. Or put it in an usb enclosure when you don't need it |
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anymore. ide-usb enclosures are cheap. |