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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:51:07
Message-Id: i8t1sk$hhs$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 by "Fatih Tümen"
1 On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
2
3 > That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a
4 > sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom...
5
6 My favorite disk failure story: I made a backup copy of my boot
7 sector with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.bak bs=512 count=1'.
8
9 That disk started giving hardware read/write errors immediately
10 after that, and never again booted successfully.
11
12 I was afraid to use dd for at least a year :/

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