I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious..
Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather unexplainably to me.
I was doing and aptitude update. Suddenly, I heard something that
sounded like the HD shutting off and spinnign down. The HD light
normally flickers during HD operation, and looking at the light, it was
flickering apparently normally.
I was in X, and it appeared that nothing was responding. I tried
CTRL-ALT-F1 and nothing seemed to happen at the moment. Suddenly the HD
spun back up, I went into Console mode, etc..
Later, I noticed that at least one file was corrupted,
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-l10-en.list. It was not complete; I
removed and reinstalled the whole openoffice.org suite.
I have the following entry in my kern.log (as well as corresponding
entries in other logs):
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Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
Busy }
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel:
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
Busy }
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel:
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
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