Re: TiBook's hard disk goes noisy, down, and never up again
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> I've been facing a strange problem three times today : the 20GB hard
> disk of my 550MHz TiBook made a very noisy sound (like some sort of
> brutal spin down), obviously went down, and ... never up : at that
> moment I could not perform any kind of disk access (sync stays hanged,
> I can not run any command, etc.). The only solution was to power-cycle
> the machine, after which everything goes fine again ... till next hang
> of the hard disk (3 times today).
>
> I have been using this machine extensively for the past two weeks,
> from the moment I bought it, and never experienced this problem. I am
> running a stock 2.4.19-pre7 kernel, Debian unstable, had no trouble of
> this kind ever since today, and the hangs did not occur while the
> machine was idle (so it's not power management, I guess). I am running
> pmud, but I do not know if it has some hard disk saving features,
> apart from spin down at suspend ...
Well, pmud does indeed set the spindown on inactivity on the HD, it's
possible that this is broken with the new IDE layer. Though what you
describe looks more like a drive power failure, which would be a
bad thing...
Maybe you should open the box and check the cables are properly
plugged in the drive ?
> I've heard that the TiBook's hard disks were known to easily break.
> Some people told me though that this could be simply a software
> problem and recommended me to try a benh kernel ... although I never
> had a problem with this plain one.
>
> Has any of you had trouble with the TiBook's hard disk ? Should I try
> some other non-experimental (or more experimental ;) kernel to avoid
> more random hangs ?
Beware with 2.4.19-pre, it has a new IDE layer coming from upstream that
isn't fully debugged yet. If you have problems, go down to 2.4.18 to check
if the problem also happens on it.
Ben.
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