Disk Death

[Keith Antoine]

Kurt Wall 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.
>   
Kurt,

Knowing you and you may years of experience and wisdom one assumes that 
you had insurance like a backup !
I do rememeber once many years ago, in Caldera days,  being told that I 
should have had a backup, by a certain GURU :))

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
Practising Geriatric retired, Brain in mimi storage.
School a place where young people are supposed to learn HOW to teach themselves
and nothing else. They learn after leaving school in the big wide world.