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From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de] |
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:22 AM |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Cc: Bob Young |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How Bad Is This...? |
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>On Mittwoch, 16. April 2008, Bob Young wrote: |
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>> I'm in the process of installing a new box, last night before going to |
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>> bed I started installing xorg server. This morning, I found the 82nd |
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>> build(out of 162) had failed with the following error: |
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[snip] |
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>the best alternative is to check what went wrong, but since Seagates are |
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>known to die in the first couple of days - or almost never, this gentleman |
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>here would bet on a defective harddisk. |
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>Btw, you might want to read up on 'bathtub curve'. Stuff breaks early, or |
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>late. |
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Just wanted to let you know, it appears you were right, it was the HD itself |
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that was bad. I substituted in the other brand new Seagate, and reinstalled. |
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Luckily I was able to read all config files from the semi-bad drive. At this |
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point I'm finished installing xorg-server, and have begun installing KDE. |
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P.S. Next time I'll post the output of dmesg...<g> |
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Thanks for responding |
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Bob Young |
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San Jose, CA. |
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