Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:13:46 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: unresponsive system On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly that IBM

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly that IBM disc was calling a 'controller' > error - since the other tests it ran on that drive it passed.. I've only seen that error once on IBM's advanced diagnostics. It was what it said: the IDE con

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 3:06 PM, Chris Lale wrote: Brian McKee wrote: [...] I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Lale
Brian McKee wrote: [...] > I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1] ahould get you started. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmo

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:51 AM, Federico Lazcano wrote: El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A little wh

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-24 Thread Federico Lazcano
El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: > On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 > > > > Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >>A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing > >>

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-24 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi All, > > A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing > a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. > Now it