Failing drive?

[John Summerfied]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> May 27 17:09:54 int-avalon kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hda1
> May 27 17:09:54 int-avalon kernel: Aborting journal on device hda1.
> May 27 17:09:54 int-avalon kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hda2) in 
> ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> May 27 17:09:54 int-avalon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, 
> sector 4192965

I saw some of them messages the other day. Now the drive makes a loud 
hard clunking sound when I try to boot, and it's not detected.

I've bought a replacement drive, but I don't expect to get anything off 
the old one.




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John

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