On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:09:18PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > <snip> > The only thing I might want to try is to run a badblock check on the > drive(s) just in case there was some actual physical damage. > </snip> > > And how do you do that??? Boot off a CD or a boot floppy into single user mode and issue: e2fsck -c /dev/hdxn where /dev/hdxn is something like /dev/hdc1. "man badblocks" recommends against running badblocks by itself. The reason why I mention this is that I had one of my drives start pulling a hissy fit - the system would hang and I would end up with some data corruption. I first tried changing the DMA parameters with hdparm but it made no difference. Then I ran a badblock check and it found two bad blocks and sequestered them for me. Been fine ever since. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
