From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6evQ-0001EA-8Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:42:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B337EE06DF; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F0EE06DF for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so285451ewy.40 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lxBZpM0SUUJlXy+QvdiL5CmIvIfDxCF30nLwVZxeaWk=; b=EadEQsMOL32o6h+RzSeCNaLF3NYAGjUYqWkA5GLPKP8mHoe89qZtS6Qq9nD9hiVd55 rZvKitq0Oq7wfWdEnPbu5iKqiVtxDmKkuaZG3Gk8mziK/qHMn2aGsbws8g67DByZPdZz 2fGjZWh5fwIyHtTdzHihnRr2hq63vzz1MnW3I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Xx087+XlG7ap5B3TmCFQDbrcwWGuhs7LdWQgfawYs2S3O3YgswKyIJjSIYBf1xrQ2L +MJN7o0JbkAQM5H6FqzserorrKJce9OkJkqF+mFHBGwmlbRNZbIV7Cr3Z8nJOC56qwbv c5NUQeNthx6pipGn788sv5w2f7xsaob++v5Wo= Received: by 10.213.13.142 with SMTP id c14mr364448eba.84.1287128462812; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v56sm2260766eeh.20.2010.10.15.00.40.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:40:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:41:29 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Daniel da Veiga References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010150941.30219.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3eb28f15-8978-465f-833a-b6825db4fd9a X-Archives-Hash: d9015b6638625a0b50e5150676ce65e7 Apparently, though unproven, at 03:13 on Friday 15 October 2010, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly: > Funny story. I had one drive that failed once (clicking) and I read > somewhere to "cool" it. So I put the damn thing on the refrigerator, > took it out after a while (it was so cold!), plugged in, and what the > heck, it started working again and I was able to backup all of the > data. After that it worked for a long time before failing again, lol. > Now I always "cool" a clicking drive before replacing it. True story. Another completely off-topic funny story: I used to fix TVs a long time ago. Putting the TV in a freezer to find heat- sensitive faults was reasonably common. Customers would think I was nuts hauling a set out the freezer and sticking it on the bench.... Then they started making those gigantic sets that don't fit into freezers; cold rooms maybe but not freezers. Yet another diagnostic technique that went the way of the dinosaur... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com