Re: TiBook's hard disk goes noisy, down, and never up again
> Hi,
>
> 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 ...
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks,
I've got the same problem. I bought my Tibook about 4 months ago and I
experienced this only 3 times IIRC.
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Eric
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