Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[Joshua Doll]

b.n. wrote:
> Sorry, I sent the mail too early. Two corrections:
>
> b.n. ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today, while I was at work, there had been a power failure. My Gentoo 
>> box was on when it happened.
>
> I was at work, but the box is at home, so I have no idea of what 
> really happened.
>
>> I rebooted a bunch of times, and everytime it behaved like there were 
>> no more hard disks. It looked for a bootsector in the CD/DVD drives 
>> and in the floppy drive, but behaved like the SATA HD did not exist. 
>> I tried to boot a Knoppix and its fstab showed no trace of an hard 
>> disk. Even more strange, at startup it
>
> ...seemed active, because the red LED blinked sometimes. No strange 
> noises etc. whatsoever.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> m.



I wonder if it reset your BIOS.



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Re[2]: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[Sergey A. Kobzar]

Hi b.n.,

Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 2:08:56 AM, you wrote:

> Sorry, I sent the mail too early. Two corrections:

> b.n. ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Today, while I was at work, there had been a power failure. My Gentoo 
>> box was on when it happened.

> I was at work, but the box is at home, so I have no idea of what really
> happened.

>> I rebooted a bunch of times, and everytime it behaved like there were no 
>> more hard disks. It looked for a bootsector in the CD/DVD drives and in 
>> the floppy drive, but behaved like the SATA HD did not exist. I tried to 
>> boot a Knoppix and its fstab showed no trace of an hard disk. Even more 
>> strange, at startup it

> ...seemed active, because the red LED blinked sometimes. No strange 
> noises etc. whatsoever.

> Thanks again,

> m.

Anyway I recommend you check S.M.A.R.T. attributes and FS consistency.


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[gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[b.n.]

Hi,

Today, while I was at work, there had been a power failure. My Gentoo 
box was on when it happened.

I found the box was not off, but it had tried to reboot. But it showed 
no Linux login prompt; instead, BIOS told me that wanted a floppy disk...

I rebooted a bunch of times, and everytime it behaved like there were no 
more hard disks. It looked for a bootsector in the CD/DVD drives and in 
the floppy drive, but behaved like the SATA HD did not exist. I tried to 
boot a Knoppix and its fstab showed no trace of an hard disk. Even more 
strange, at startup it

I was quite terrified, but after a couple more reboots it got the hd 
again, apparently flawlessly... and now I'm here writing to you from the 
box.

What I want to know is: is it a common glitch in case of power failures 
or it is the symptom of something that is going very wrong? And how can 
I know if it's the second? (I have smartctl, but I'm not very smart at 
using it).

Thanks,

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[b.n.]

Sorry, I sent the mail too early. Two corrections:

b.n. ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> Today, while I was at work, there had been a power failure. My Gentoo 
> box was on when it happened.

I was at work, but the box is at home, so I have no idea of what really 
happened.

> I rebooted a bunch of times, and everytime it behaved like there were no 
> more hard disks. It looked for a bootsector in the CD/DVD drives and in 
> the floppy drive, but behaved like the SATA HD did not exist. I tried to 
> boot a Knoppix and its fstab showed no trace of an hard disk. Even more 
> strange, at startup it

...seemed active, because the red LED blinked sometimes. No strange 
noises etc. whatsoever.

Thanks again,

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[b.n.]

Joshua Doll ha scritto:

> I wonder if it reset your BIOS.

I must say that the hd was again recognized just after I had accessed 
the BIOS control center to understand what happened.

m.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[Norberto Bensa]

b.n. wrote:
> I found the box was not off, but it had tried to reboot. But it showed
> no Linux login prompt; instead, BIOS told me that wanted a floppy disk...

Let me guess.. Intel ICHsomething? 

I've found that my MSI P965 wouldn't recognize my Maxtor 300GB SATAII HD after 
a power failure. 


> I was quite terrified, but after a couple more reboots it got the hd
> again, apparently flawlessly... 

Exactly the same symptoms. Have you power it down completely, switching the 
PSU off for a few seconds?


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Norberto
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] After power failure, SATA hd not recognized a bunch of times: do I have to worry?

[b.n.]

Norberto Bensa ha scritto:
> b.n. wrote:
>> I found the box was not off, but it had tried to reboot. But it showed
>> no Linux login prompt; instead, BIOS told me that wanted a floppy disk...
> 
> Let me guess.. Intel ICHsomething? 


Old asrock K7S8XE+

> Exactly the same symptoms. Have you power it down completely, switching the 
> PSU off for a few seconds?

I didn't switch off the PSU but yes, I powered it down a couple of 
seconds...

As for smart, smartctl -d ata --all /dev/sda tells me the following:
http://pastebin.com/942134


m.
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