Just buy a new drive Dave, there so cheap, why waste your time fiddling about with an old 40gb.
I'm joking of course, you should check cables, and check nothing is shorting out. ..then buy a new one. Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown > > 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): > > ------------------ cut ----------------- 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 > > ----------------- cut ------------------ > > This shows everything happening within a minute - it seemed > like a log longer. But I just wonder what is going on. > Could it be the HD wanting to fail? It's a WD-400BB maybe a > couple years old. Could it be the BIOS trying to put the HD > to sleep? Don't think I had that set - will check upon next > reboot. Overheating? The system had not been up over a half hour. > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
