[linux-help] Re: HD trouble

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxx>]

The whistling followed by the sudden large number of bad blocks probably
means a head crash.
I would warrant the drive just for peace of mind.

If it is a head crash and is recoverable at this time it does not mean
you will not continue to have problems.  The inconvenience of installing
the new drive may be tiny compared to losing everything on the drive
later if it gets worse.



Nathan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here's a posting that describes almost exactly what I
> was dealing with.  It says it's "highly deadly" if you
> follow the thread.
> http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.3/0969.html
> 
> I ended up going to runlevel 1, unmounting hda3 & hda4
> (the ones that were having the trouble), and running
> "e2fsck -cv".  I'm assuming/hoping this will store the
> bad blocks so the file system won't use them anymore.
> 
> Here's another URL I found that talks about bad blocks
> more in-depth.
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue37/tag/39.html
> When I installed Debian, I skipped the badblock
> scan....evidently a bad move.  Now I'm just wondering
> if I should be concerned about my HD.  I'm still
> thinking about that strange whistle it let out when
> this all started.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can "refresh" my
> installation?  I want to be sure everything is still
> good to go.  There were some files partially stored in
> bad blocks.  I don't know if they were recovered.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
> 
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