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 1RLcq9-0007zp-MM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:34:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A77221C27B; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2395721C1EE for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnp2 with SMTP id p2so308942ggn.40 for ; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:33:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+nBzVpOA7ED5QN6yIKUQ2AcXK3ajOkqjnfq3fVi+CAk=; b=VISlSXRxOzDbZQ6ro0W2TgytOvgZsp8u1UxgMYr02v/U/dxbsAbSA5jAx3RQvR8qhm 4QFRNlI61+WMFP0da/d0bTyTqEPHGb14+YiwYZv18IxDKgi1IBEXh35igWSz4TMT56Zn vBS+kbZlf6r4bnuWF/XlnmCsZEjCCLJaKfE3I= Received: by 10.236.153.3 with SMTP id e3mr7543348yhk.68.1320248020855; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-89-228.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.89.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q57sm4544332yhi.22.2011.11.02.08.33.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EB162D2.2020501@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:33:38 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral? References: <4EB04146.8030207@gmail.com> <4EB09A16.4050608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e925267b-a0f3-4a5d-ba12-e82b986d2959 X-Archives-Hash: cff78b1a0a252b125b21c8f74c70ac96 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: >> OK. For those that have never seen this before, here is what messages looks >> like when a hard drive is going belly up: > (...) >> So, if you see things like this in your log file, rescue data real soon. >> Make a note of this since this could happen on your rig one day. >> > Thanks, Dale. Actually I've never experienced an hard drive failure, > but your thread made me want to do one as soon as possible :D > > (Besides that, "is going belly up" made me burst out laughing) > > Lorenzo > > Well, I live in the sticks. I see opossums and especially armadillos belly up all the time. They look like those animal balloons. lol Their little feet stuck up in the air and all. If you ever run across one of those, do NOT poke it with a stick. It can be bad real fast. I just wish hard drives were as tough as the armadillos tho. Dale :-) :-)