David wrote:
I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious..
Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather unexplainably to me.
I was doing and aptitude update. Suddenly, I heard something that sounded like the HD shutting off and spinnign down. The HD light normally flickers during HD operation, and looking at the light, it was flickering apparently normally.
I was in X, and it appeared that nothing was responding. I tried CTRL-ALT-F1 and nothing seemed to happen at the moment. Suddenly the HD spun back up, I went into Console mode, etc..
Later, I noticed that at least one file was corrupted, /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-l10-en.list. It was not complete; I removed and reinstalled the whole openoffice.org suite.
I have the following entry in my kern.log (as well as corresponding entries in other logs):
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Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
Busy }
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
Busy }
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
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Install, configure and use smartmontools.
If it doesn't recognise your drive, follow the reporting procedure. In a day or two there wil be a new package for you to try.
He service really is very good.
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