From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GqvZP-0005OA-6V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:56:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB3Hs2EL025825; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:54:02 GMT Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (alnrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.225.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB3HrxRt000332 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:54:02 GMT Received: from oddman (c-68-59-45-25.hsd1.sc.comcast.net[68.59.45.25]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with SMTP id <20061203175357b1200svk91e>; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:53:58 +0000 Message-ID: <002401c71704$06c26660$6900a8c0@donahues> From: "Drake Donahue" To: References: <7573e9640611271044k23c6a0afwbb2317e23ffbc54d@mail.gmail.com><7573e9640611271749k6764b39fh88f20086e2edfc8e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:54:05 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.2663 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2757 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0652-6, 12/01/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 525507d8-35fd-40ec-89f5-707f27b4c3da X-Archives-Hash: e76f83b99273a4b6296b2d5582dfc2bf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> To: Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: fsck seems to screw up my harddisk > "Guido Doornberg" posted > eb2db630612030540k38b658b2q3571a712efc510d0@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:40:11 +0100: > >> Well, I downloaded and started a fresh 2006.1 livecd, repartitioned de >> hdd, started mke2fs and this time with the -c option. >> >> So, it started checking and after about 15 minutes this kept on showing >> up >> on my screen: >> >> ata1: error=ox40 {uncorrectable error} ata1: translated ATA stat/err >> 0X51/40 SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04 >> >> after a while i got a couple of other messages, and now it keeps on >> talking about Buffer I/O error on device sda3, and after that various >> sectors and blocks are called. >> >> I did look after my power supply and I'm for 99% sure that's not the >> problem. So, correct me if i'm wrong but that would mean my harddisk is >> the problem? But how than is it possible that I can use it normally if I >> don't let fsck check it? >> >> I know this isn't really gentoo specific anymore, but if anyone knows >> what >> to do i'm happy to hear it. visit http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/warranty/index.htm and get replacement current crop of spinpoint is getting bad reports for reliability -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list