relaxing weekend slightly bumpy due to /dev/hda1
Saturday, 7. November 2009, 08:10:58
I think my hard drive is failing, but what do I know about these things. Three times in the past twelve hours I've found my computer all locked up, or everything seg faulting, or a kernel panic.
I switched over to a console as it was going down one time, I typed "df", and it said something about ext3 fs errors on /dev/hda1. That's the master drive. Oh, master!
Should I just assume it's the hard drive? Dunno. I could pick up a new one tomorrow, but I hate to part with $80 right now.
Strangely, I've never had a hard drive just up and fail since 1996. I've always sworn by Western Digitals. I've made my backups.
In other news today, I bathed the dog and wished my sweet BF a happy 20th anniversary.
I switched over to a console as it was going down one time, I typed "df", and it said something about ext3 fs errors on /dev/hda1. That's the master drive. Oh, master!
Should I just assume it's the hard drive? Dunno. I could pick up a new one tomorrow, but I hate to part with $80 right now.
Strangely, I've never had a hard drive just up and fail since 1996. I've always sworn by Western Digitals. I've made my backups.
In other news today, I bathed the dog and wished my sweet BF a happy 20th anniversary.
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WIDGETIZE
Shaunak # 7. November 2009, 08:48
Me too. Never had a WD fail on me. You could get one of the new Black Raptor disks.
Congrats on your 20th anniversary.
PainterWoman # 7. November 2009, 09:03
Now that would be scary. My old dial up pc would sometimes lock up but it was ten years old.
Luckily, I have a great computer guy to take my pc to. He's very smart, nice and doesn't charge an arm and a leg. He's semi retired now and no longer does house calls, which is fine by me. Although I do hate crawling under the desk to unplug then re-plug everything back in once I get the pc back home. He said he'll never completely retire because he loves what he does.
cofoppyplop # 7. November 2009, 10:21
slackwrdave # 7. November 2009, 15:50
Somehow the computer ran all night without a problem. Strange. Is this drive going or not? My computer uses the IDE drives, which are $80 for 320GB. The SATA drives are $99 for 1 TB. *sigh*
Oh the pornography! I mean "oh the humanity."
slackwrdave # 7. November 2009, 16:56
Shaunak # 7. November 2009, 17:26
slackwrdave # 7. November 2009, 19:04
The machine has been running 13 hours now with no further errors. Last night when I patched in a 3rd drive to do a backup, I yanked off and reseated all the cables. Maybe it was just that! I can only hope. Keeping an eye on it. Something yanking things off solves a lot of problems.
cofoppyplop # 7. November 2009, 19:11
selurus # 8. November 2009, 05:23
slackwrdave # 8. November 2009, 06:19
selurus # 8. November 2009, 07:53
decodedthought # 14. November 2009, 12:14
slackwrdave # 14. November 2009, 21:12
Originally posted by decodedthought:
Just the uncertainty alone makes me nervous.
decodedthought # 15. November 2009, 04:08