[5] in Hotline Meeting
Avarice's hard disk revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 10 15:32:14 1990
From: cfields@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 90 15:57:11 -0400
To: rita@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, cfields@MIT.EDU
On March 10th, I reported having problems with Avarice's hard disk.
It had been making unpleasant noises and finally managed to corrupt a
block on the disk, causing a swap error to come up (there turned out
to be a corrupted block in attach). I was told to run rqbads and run
manual fsck before a service call would be made, which seemed odd to
me since if the disk was making noises, software fixes weren't going
to help it. Anyway, I ran them, found from rqbads the bad block, and
replaced the attach binary.
I told people to be wary of using the machine since I had no reason
to believe anything had been fixed. Subsequently, it has received less
use over the last month. However, today it started reporting swap
errors again. Running rqbads with icheck and ncheck revealed a
different corrupted block and a new bad binary, which I have also now
replaced.
The machine is now usable again, but I do not consider it reliable.
Craig Fields
pika
