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

["Walter Hansen" <gandalf@example.com>]

Sounds to me like it's dieing. I'd start looking into the warrenty. Drives
usually start reporting more and more bad sectors before going, but not
always. If it's under two years old as you said, there's a good chance
it's under warrenty, but you'll be without a drive for a few weeks while
it's in transent.

> Hi All,
>
> more info for this. The 1st time it happened, I got the following after
> being dropped to a shell and running fsck as suggested,
>
> Error reading block 'block-number' (Attempt to read block from
> filesystem resulted in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore
> error<?>y
>
> Force Rewrite<?>y
>
> After doing this x amount of time, the scan finished, and I gave a
> reboot command. But, it gave a number of errors, that said certain
> files(pids?) were read only. Below is what I recall of those errors.
>
> rm: <filepath> read only file
>
> Sorry, I didn't note it down, and don't have the faulty drive with me
> today. I'll run it again tonight, and post the exact errors.
>
> 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.
>
> Mark Sargent.
>
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