Re: [tlug] Clunk, Clunk, the Drive is Dead

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Josh Glover wrote:
>   
>> On 12/8/05, Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com> wrote:
>>> after having to turn off the power, due to the system locking up, and
>>> re-booting, I'm back to the point of being dropped to a shell, only to
>>> finally get to the same sticking point again. I then completely
>>> re-installed, as there wasn't anything worthwhile on the drive, and just
>>> to see what would happen. The install was successful, and I had been
>>> using it for alomost 2 days, when all of a sudden, last evening, I got
>>> some clunking sounds from the drive, and it locked up the whole system,
>>> again. Upon re-starting, I was dropped again, to a shell, for the same
>>> result. Thoughts.? Cheers. 
>> yes, the drive is about to die. Toss it.
>  was leaning strongly towards that...curious though, as this drive, even 
> though 1-2yrs old, has had very little use in that time...what could 
> have caused it to just go like that? Can anything, from software level, 
> cause such a thing, or is it purely hardware level.? what I mean, is, 
> even though the harddrive is purely hardware, there must be some sort of 
> software aspect to it, within the drive itself, yes.?  Out of me depth 
> here, once again.
>   
Heat kills hard drives.  Dropping can also cause problems.  Does your
hard drive have smart support.  This will tell you what is going on with
your hard drive before it dies.  I had similar problems with a server
and it turned out to be a memory error (but this is less common).

Edward