Re: root device !reinitializes!

2007-09-21 Thread curtm notellingyou
--- Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd guess its a sign of the drive beginning to fail. > If you haven't, > install smartmontools and run some tests on the > disk. i have thought about that too! i will then try some tests with smartmoontools. thanks for the hint! > try runni

root device !reinitializes!

2007-09-20 Thread curtm notellingyou
i am not quite sure what is going on, but my harddrive, managed by the libata + ata_piix drivers is randomly reinitialzing and after doing that no longer accessable for the kernel by its old name /dev/sda but /dev/sdb. this is indeed very strange, since it never has happend before. i am running etc