hi ya On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? > >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? > > who knows maybe it's software error, but more likely a loss of power > while running/writting, but much much more likely a disk failure. > > anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the > questions. the system will fsck your disk if its not properly shutdown using "-y" to fsck is a bad idea, unless oyu know why its fsck'ing in the first place - if its bad mmory... i dont want the disk touched assuming that it was shutdown properly ... - if your bios time is whacky... so can fsck... - if you have bad memory... it will try to fix the drive according to its bad memory content.... - if its a brand new disk... there probably wasnt anything wrong with it if it installed and was rebooted a few times before the last sleep of 2 months - somebody else played with your system and powered it off incorrectly the magic pixie dust did it your best bet is to re-install again... if it happens again..swapp out either the memory or disk or maybe even a bad cpu that has gone bonkers c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]