Irritating disk noise ...

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 04:33 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > Hmmmm. . . . . . .
> > I, too, have SCSI drives (4 to be exact).  On my box, this is
> > called the "disk is dying" noise, in much the same status as you
> > describe. Replaced one on Monday.  Maybe not the situation you're
> > having, but be cautious.
>
> Egad! Doan tell me that. These disks will be a week old come
> Saturday.
>
> Think I better go take some B's ...
>
> Michael

Oh, then it's probably not that!  
Mine was about 4 years old.
I guess the SCSI controller kept trying to talk to it and then I 
couldn't boot that disk (but I could read it).. Then all hell broke 
loose when I did fsck.
Sorry for the shock!!


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