Disk Death

[Lonni J Friedman]

That sucks.  smartd never alerted you to any problems?

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> There I was, happily computing along and downloading a torrent of the
> Fedora 11 alpha when the following occurred:
>
> 1) The torrent window abruptly closed
> 2) My xterms all showed the message from syslogd: "ext3: journal commit
> error"
> 3) My browser died.
> 4) Simple "ls" and "/bin/ls" commands in the xterms got "I/O errors"
>
> I exited X and tried to login at the console but the machine would
> accept only my user name. Before getting the password prompt the screen
> would clear, reset, and I'd be back at the Login: prompt.
>
> Unable to get a console session, I tried to Ctl-Alt-Del to restart. No
> love. After a few attempts at that, I gave up and power-cycled the
> machine. While doing so, I noticed that the drive light for this drive
> was solid on - it usually only flickers a little bit when being
> accessed.
>
> Upon reboot, the system couldn't even detect the drive that was giving
> me grief. Even a probe from the BIOS screen failed. I'm thinking it's
> toast.
>
> Grmph.


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