Michelle Konzack wrote: > sorry for the late answer but I have fished > your message out of my spamfolder today... Hopefully this one won't follow the first one. :-) > I was thinking , there minght be some bad blocks... Given your follow up you might be right. But your previous data showed zero bad blocks. > The HDD does not more stop to spin There have historically been many problems with this. There are often several process that keep things spinning undesirably. > and if I try to write to the disk I get something "short read error" > which force me to umont the drive and then run the fsck.ext3 and it > restore every time the journal. Ew... That sounds like a hardware problem. (I don't know so take that response with caution. But it has the feeling of a hardware error to me.) > > Between booting and mounting and copying are you hibernating or > > sleeping the machine? > > No, nothing is installed which force the machine to sleep or hybernate. I asked that specifically because I didn't think you were and then this would not be laptop specific. It is really a generic problem then. > Maybe my TP570 will go? Perhaps just the disk drive. Does the drive support SMART? apt-get install smartmontools smartctl --all /dev/hda smartctl --health /dev/hda You might need to enable smart on the drive. I hope that turns up something useful. Bob
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