From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:49:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i8t1sk$hhs$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikbGawUpbTkpVTAPFHzcArztaJkp4e18xbip9+1@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
> That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a
> sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom...
My favorite disk failure story: I made a backup copy of my boot
sector with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.bak bs=512 count=1'.
That disk started giving hardware read/write errors immediately
after that, and never again booted successfully.
I was afraid to use dd for at least a year :/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-10 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 19:24 [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 Fatih Tümen
2010-10-09 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Fatih Tümen
2010-10-09 21:15 ` walt
2010-10-10 3:58 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 9:23 ` Stroller
2010-10-10 16:21 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 22:02 ` Stroller
2010-10-11 11:51 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-11 12:33 ` Stroller
2010-10-12 5:42 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 10:01 ` Mick
2010-10-10 16:28 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 18:49 ` walt [this message]
2010-10-11 9:51 ` James Wall
2010-10-10 22:11 ` Stroller
2010-10-12 16:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-10-15 1:13 ` Daniel da Veiga
2010-10-15 7:41 ` Alan McKinnon
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