Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-30 Thread David
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:30:39PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:34 -0500: > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > > > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it

RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Joyce
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, 2

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Tim Connors
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:34 -0500: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was > > very concerned.

RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
, 30 July 2004 3:39 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:14:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > David wrote: > >I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious.. > >Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread David
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was > very concerned. I asked around and was told ``before you go out and bu > a new disk, try wi

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was very concerned. I asked around and was told ``before you go out and bu a new disk, try wiggling the IDE cable around''. Of course I took this with a pinch of s

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread David
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:14:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > David wrote: > >I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious.. > >Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather unexplainably to me. > >I have the following entry in my kern.log (as well as corresponding > >entries in othe

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
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 operati