Rob Dupuis wrote:
Hey guys. Many thanks for all you responses. My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling. I think I'm gonna disable DMA, add the noauto line to my fstab and see if I can try to salvage some of my important data from the drive. Then I'm gonna reinstall debian and try to get my apt pinning sorted out so I only upgrade versions of things I need. Any ideas if I add the noauto whether I'll be able to mount the corrupted drive? RobD
The only thing noauto does is prevent the partition from automaigcally being mounted at boot. If you have some sort of data recovery tool you plan to use on the dirve, this is probably a good idea. Especially since a corrupted drive will likely trigger a fsck, which could make things worse in your case. -Roberto
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