Re: Cleaning my /usr/lost+found
Mike Touloumtzis said
> On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:56:37PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 04:53:33PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> > > > Here's what's in /usr/lost+found/ (I promise to only print this list once.)
> > > >
> > > > Ok. I like a good challenge, but this is ridicules!!
> > >
> > > This shows your disk is severly screwed up. It is time to make a
> > > backup, and see if you can reformat the disk and reinstall. If you get
> > > errors like this again, I think you will have to regard the disk as
> > > `deceased'.
> >
> > No way. File systems errors caused due to a crash or loss of
> > system power cause things just like this too.
> >
>
> It's certainly possible that this could have been caused by a power
> off or routine hardware failure. But this make and model of HD have a
> well known firmware bug.
>
I've got a few WD drives, I'm fairly sure this is the one that I had
problems w/ before. If that's the case, then I've already done the
firmware fix. Though it could have been for a different drive...
> Check out, for example:
>
I'll check it out and try again.
> http://www.wdc.com/fitnesszone/err-rec.html
> http://www.wdc.com/new/overlay.html
>
> miket
>
Thanks for the input
Chuck
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