One is an IBM 1 gig and the other is a Maxtor 20 gig. The suspected
drive is the IBM.
Mike M.
Though I'm still scratching my head on why a hard drive that contains
the /boot and swap partition would cause slow program loading.
NOTE: this slow program loading just started a couple of days ago. Up
until this machine rocked.
Mike M.
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 17:17, Seth Hollen wrote:
> Out of curiosity what make and model HD are you talking about?
>
>
>
> Take care,
>
> Seth
> seth@opentechinc.net
> 727-919-1598
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Mike
> Manchester
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:58 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Redhat ext3 harddrive problem - and fix - but wonder
> why
>
>
> Well that's what I get for trusting spell check :)
> Anyway.
> It's starting to act up again. I'm really suspecting it's a bad hard
> drive as I can hear noise like when a floppy disk is having trouble
> reading a track. And thinks seem to get slower as time goes by. Unless
> you know of something else I'm thinking I'm going to replace the drive.
> Do you think a reinstall with a format would fix the problem? Being
> unemployed I'm a little strapped for cash and replacing a hard drive is
> not in the budget :( Mike M.
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:26, Smitty wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 January 2003 13:13, you wrote:
> > > Well, here's one I don't quite understand.
> > > This morning my machine was realllllllly slow it went from being a
> > > 1.1 Gig to a 50 mhz processor. So I decided to reboot it took the
> > > machine about 8 mins to boot and 9 mins to startx.
> > >
> > > All things pointed to a hard drive going bad or was bad. So in
> > > desperation I decided to boot into rescue mode and run fsck.ext3.
> > > Well after about 2 hours of fsck.ext3 running I rebooted and now all
>
> > > appears to working.
> > >
> > > I'm glad I was able to fix it. But now I have this lingering desire
> > > to understand what/why this might have happened. Note on no boot ups
>
> > > did I get any kind of file system checks. Just a reallllllly slow
> > > machine.
> > >
> > > Any incite into this would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mike M.
> >
> > I won't incite, but I will offer you some insight. It Could be that a
>
> > journal
> > write was interrupted, causing some corruption. Good thing it was ext3
> and
> > not another journalling fs, as ext3 has higher capabilities for
> repair.
> > Smitty
>
>
>
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