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Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell Leben)
Sun Oct 27 22:16:34 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 21:12:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Mitchell Leben <mitch@smithphoto.com>
To: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org>
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In-Reply-To: <m0vHYSN-0005nxC@stardust.bln.sub.org>
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Well, about a week since I thought it was REALLY bad I am still using the
drive :) I did an fsck and restored the partition table from 8193 (I
think the command was fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda4 - don't quote me though).
Since then I have had zero errors, and everything is nicely backed up.
To help determine if the drive had mechanical flaws, I copied a 50 meg
file over and over untill the drive was 98% full. I hit it pretty hard,
and encountered no errors. One thing comes to mind though. I used to keep
an archive of the inet-access mailing list and convert it to HTML on this
machine, then copy the HTML files to the web server (across an NFS mount
via ISDN). Well, when I had around 3500 files I got a cp error, "too
many arguments." So I moved the archive to the web server permanently and
killed all of those files (all in one directory).
Could the large number of files caused any problems? I had 3500 files in
one directory.
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> > > >lete DataRequest Error }
> > > >>Oct 24 23:41:42 spock kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> > > >, LBAsect=3051439, sector=1753135
> > > >
>
> Can't second that. I use 2 1.6 Gig WD's here for over a year now. The
> 1.2 Gig WD's, AC21200 Drives where quite bad. They had an Design error
> and broke quite fast. Anyway, it also happened to me once and I still
> saved it :) I have a System that runs completely with E-IDE. All I did
> was to mount a SCSI harddisk (Had a controller in) with running
> System, loaded the SCSI-NCR Module which recognised the Drive, a
> copied all of the broken drive after having mounted it on /mnt, with
> cp -aRv --one-file-system / /mnt :) Worked like charm. Returned the
> Drive andgot anew one 4 Weeks later :)
>
>
>
> cp -aRv --one-file-system <filesystem> <mounted drive>
>
> >
> I'm also running 3.0.3 on about 60 Maschines at university. I thought
> about on installing 4.0 on one of my Servers, but did drop the Idea,
> since there where too many Problems not discovered yet. I need a
> stable environement, as it's the Only I have for about 30 Clients.
I have 4.0 on a couple of machines now, and I am not too sure about it.
One thing I really have to figure out is this PAM security stuff. The
adduser script no longer works, error : "Password file is locked." I am
not saying 4.0 is bad, just that I have to learn a few things.
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Mitchell Leben
mitch@smithphoto.com
http://snappy.smithphoto.com/~mitch
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