From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:34:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinTRnSiRWnI71dYrDeRS9DQmfH1zvzu274KRXhK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007220711.31716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2010 05:14:08 David Relson wrote:
>> /var/log/messages has indicated a slew of XFS problems on an external
>> USB hard drive (see attachment). These look pretty fatal. Anybody
>> think the file system is recoverable?
>
> You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: xfs is vulnerable
> to power interruptions, so a faulty USB cable can cause corruption.
I had exactly this problem with a USB HDD formatted with xfs. The USB
cable that it came with was rubbish... the drive would disconnect &
reconnect on its own for no apparent reason, and corruption happened
of course. I replaced it with another cable and it worked fine after
that.
A few months later the power supply started to fail, it would
occasionally not provide enough power and the drive would go offline
or start beeping/clicking. At first I thought the disk was bad
(clicking is never good) but it was actually the sound of the drive
trying to spin up and failing. Eventually the power brick couldn't
even spin up the drive at all. I replaced the power supply and now the
drive works fine again, for now...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 4:14 [gentoo-user] dying hard drive David Relson
2010-07-22 6:11 ` Mick
2010-07-22 16:34 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=AANLkTinTRnSiRWnI71dYrDeRS9DQmfH1zvzu274KRXhK@mail.gmail.com \
--to=paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox