[ltp] Disasters on a Thinkpad 600E

[Sungjin Chun]

I think it is better if you can link your hard disk to other machine,
then 
	cat /dev/hd??(your tp hdd) > /dev/newHard
and test your newHard disk on new tp. If this helps, you can send your
tp to be fixed and your work could be done on other machine with
new hdd.

On ¿ù, 19  6¿ù 2000, you wrote:
## Folks,
## 
## I have owned a Thinkpad 600E since December 1999. I run Debian Linux 2.2.14 
## on it and very successfully too, till last Thursday, when all hell (literally!)
## broke loose. 
## 
## I've been aware of the schizophrenia in the Thinkpad behaviour when it runs on 
## battery and when it runs on power: /proc/cpuinfo shows 92MHz if it is booted 
## on battery vs. 366MHz if it is booted on a direct power supply. 
## 
## On doomsday, it booted 92MHz while on power. There were two other glitches, 
## both to do with the display: 
## 
## 	- the thinkpad used only half the screen for display in textmode. 
##         - an entire row of pixels at the top of the screen had died.
## 
## When I logged in and ran X, X used the full screen nicely (with a row of 
## pixels dead). In fact, other than the /proc/cpuinfo, the machine behaved 
## itself and very nicely too. It worked so nicely, I wasn't alarmed into 
## taking a backup.
## 
## I took it to the IBM Thinkpad service center (in Bombay, India). They are 
## not Linux aware, and all Linux machines make them jittery. At the service
## center, they apparently opened up the machine and put in another CPU. They 
## booted up the machine, and /proc/cpuinfo still showed 92MHz. They 
## effectively washed their hands off the matter, and said they would get back
## after consulting their Bangalore office. 
## 
## I went home, worked on the machine all night. I took it to office the next
## morning, worked on it for two hours. It was working _so_ normally, I didn't
## even consider taking a backup. I shut it down, went out for lunch, and took 
## the machine with me. 
## 
## After lunch, I booted the machine to find "I9990301" was the only thing my 
## machine would tell me after the Thinkpad opening screen with the memory 
## check. 
## 
## I did the startup diagnostic test on the entire machine; everything checks
## fine, except for hda1 which says "Dev 017 Err 022" and something else which
## I forget. The hda1 test makes an awful (loud!) whirring sound in the middle
## of the test. When I booted off a SuSE cdrom and tried to do a dd on the hard
## disk, I can't read _anything_ off it, anywhere.  I got a friend's Thinkpad
## 600E, put my harddisk in, and the symptoms are the same: "I9990301" with 
## startup diagnostic giving bad harddisk errors. 
## 
## I now have a dead (?) harddisk, and a weird /proc/cpuinfo and a screen that
## doesn't display full size in textmode. Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom
## on what they think might be the problem, what the possible solution could be,
## what I could do, in what sequence (if only to know what not to do the next
## time) to:
## 
## a) get the data off my dead harddisk
## b) get a machine with a 366MHz CPU that the 600E is supposed to have
## c) get a full screen display in textmode
## 
## I haven't sent email to any IBM folks outside of India yet. Which address
## should I use if I wanted to send this email to IBM?  Are there any service
## centers in Paris/Boston that might handle the problem of reviving my harddisk
## with a higher degree of competence compared to what I've seen in Bombay? (I 
## am likely to be in these places before the end of July.)
## 
## Other than the time taken off to type this, I'm keeping my fingers crossed
## (desperately!) -- I've a month of very hard work done stored on my harddisk
## that I am anxious to retrieve. 
## 
## Thanks,
## 
## 	-Susan
## 
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