[Fedora] Re: Failing drive?

[Lai Zit Seng]

On Sat, 28 May 2005, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> Lai Zit Seng wrote:
>
>> I'd agree entirely. If your data is precious, immediately do a backup 
>> before anything else. Not even reboot. I've experienced several unfortunate 
>> cases where the drive seems to work ok inspite of the errors, and then I 
>> thought let's see if a reboot would clear the problem... and sadly, the 
>> drive didn't survive it.
>
>   I can't do anything without a reboot.  It won't let me log in, not from 
> the network nor from the console.  I have to reboot the system before I can 
> do anything with it again.

I see, then that's pretty bad. In that case, reboot and hope for the best 
:)

Regards,

.lzs
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