Re: Is my hard drive dying?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -0000, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine
> > till now.
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> If you don't have hdparm spinning down your drives, odds are you are
> looking at the early stages of a hrd drive failure.
Early? One of the blocks on the drive just "went away". It's most
likely unrecoverable. Moreover, it's not just a block that wasn't
used at all, because otherwise, the kernel wouldn't have requested
it from the drive. So, Andrew: Get your data off that drive ASAP,
consider the drive a "goner" until proven otherwise.
(Some people are giving lots of possibilities of the drive not
giving the ghost. I find this dangerous: If I'd get lots of advice
"it could be this or that", which all indicate that the data will
be safe on the drive, I'd consider checking that out while in fact
I should be backing up the data that can still be read from the
drive.
Andrew already got his important data off the drive. Good. But
for the others: You might end up feeling very sorry if you push
someone with a faulty drive into checking out a couple of other
possiblities before they try to backup their data, and it's too
late....)
Roger.
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