Re: harddisc errors
> Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue mode
> and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root partition.
> It seems to fix something (giving a warning
> 'FILESYSTEM HAS CHANGED' or something similar)
>
> I'm suspecting the problems I saw were caused by
> hdparm+udev - I purged udev and reinstalled (and
> removed a stale /dev/.udev) and disabled hdparm, and
> no more errors were coming up; I tried reenabling
> hdparm, but was getting some modules not getting
> loaded again - so I purged hdparm.
> I found information online that suggested udev and
> hdparm together might cause problem (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/27940
> ), though obviously in this case it is most likely a
> misconfiguration issue, not a bug in either of the two
> programs.
>
> Am currently thinking of reinstalling hdparm, though I
> think I need advice as how to configure it (installing
> it, or `dpkg-reconfigure hdparm`, aren't giving
> configuration help)
Since udev is required by the most recent kernels, you probably don't
want to install something that prevents you from having udev.
What is it you want hdparm for?
Doug.
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