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


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