Re: HD problems

2008-02-29 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Zach wrote: Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises coming from the area where the HD is then the kernel panicked a

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:32:57AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: > > > >Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to > >all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing > >release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud c

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:25, Zach wrote: > Hello, > > > Thanks, > Zach Well, I dont know if it's going to help, but I give an experince I had. Installing a new box, I had I/O errors, on a new material. exchanged the HD, same problem + segfault. Exchanged the memories, still the problem.

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: Hello, Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises co

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread David S
Hi Zach I don't know how to fix your old laptop, and I have heard that laptop hard drives have stunted lifespans, but there are products on the market that can provide an external enclosure and USB interface for these hard drives. I have one myself, but you do need to look around. As for USB boot

Re: HD problems

2008-02-26 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Zach wrote: > It's a Toshiba ATA disk, MK6026 GAX, 60GB, another $60 sigh. Hi Zach, >From my limited experience, the Toshiba laptop hard drives are pretty bad. They always go bad after 1 or 2 years. The problem is exactly as you describe. No problems before and one fine day it decides to give i

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 06 Jun 2000, Vitux wrote: > > Larry Shields wrote: > > > > > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but > > > here > > > is what happened this morning... > > > > > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the sc

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jun 2000, Vitux wrote: > Larry Shields wrote: > > > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > > is what happened this morning... > > > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be access

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-06 Thread Vitux
Larry Shields wrote: > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > is what happened this morning... > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be accessed, but it could'nt...Here is what it > was

Re: HD Problems...!!!!

2000-06-04 Thread ktb
Larry Shields wrote: > > I am not sure if anyone can help me out with this problem or not, but here > is what happened this morning... > > When I turned on the monitor, there were a bunch of error's on the screen, > my 6.4hd keep'ed trying to be accessed, but it could'nt...Here is what it > was