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 1ObzDy-0005Id-IS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42C39E0B8A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C552E0A6A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so5771237fxm.40 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2b4uDUPGDMWoZvM9MRsTKj+Ai8lQpSc7QokKcl0J9e4=; b=hNHu4stvbGgiqgvEPGlxy9MCNMzwyIlTAldzLocwkHNCiZiG0IBH8jGYqq22w5gSzo rBlREUwucL3T1paqIB3BRUmQzGtLFOK9yekKGGhQdFJUkOE9BXQxpuGcktUX0eQgkw7K Rt+BHJPE88Aqn4ByBb831Vb0G81MZbcsgXA0w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=dJLI5zZTFcWFyGABj70aCIun50LYTCvCIoBHw1tNK/aM3/JYYU8KBnPgC2tDOUoPH8 8ivy4mumuD6Eyub/BBrSphILGiiNlZZxMxBD1oNMuwqBp5fzx+5Xb+g7uvZb955b0sIT nCxSv26y9ZoaLFZ4ZG7hlVSUScdcc/ZJV58to= 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 Received: by 10.223.114.69 with SMTP id d5mr2183978faq.43.1279816474477; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.184.77 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:34:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007220711.31716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20100722001408.49fbf790@osage.osagesoftware.com> <201007220711.31716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:34:34 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: bCJT4TH-6taXAW-ljz3y4is5J24 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6080c1b1-5864-4a83-b54d-a7bd32e7a5cd X-Archives-Hash: 5b859412de72975a73a6be98c3453290 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Mick 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). =A0These look pretty fatal. =A0Anybody >> think the file system is recoverable? > > You'll have to try to recover it, to see if it is possible: =A0xfs is vul= nerable > 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...