[ltp] 600E system freeze--software or hardware?

[James Holden]

I had the exact same symptoms a few months back.... my hard disk failed in the 
end.

I'd back up your data while you have the chance. If you have access to Norton 
Ghost and a netware/NT/samba server and appropriate boot disk, take an image of 
the drive while it's still good.

Check your logs too... I sometimes got errors in them from the IDE driver. Then 
again, how can it write to the logs when the hard disk has died?


James


Quoting "Zoki, mailinglist account" <zoki.news@linuxix.2y.net>:

> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com
> > [mailto:owner-linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com]De la part de Mark Nye
> > Envoyé : mardi 4 juin 2002 14:48
> > À : linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
> > Objet : [ltp] 600E system freeze--software or hardware?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > On two occasions I've experienced odd system freezes running RH7.2 on my
> > TP600E. The first occurance was three months or so ago -- I was at the
> > computer editing a text file when everything suddenly froze and the hard
> > drive began making an odd "clanking" noise (pretty loud) that
> > repeated over
> > and over until I powered down the system. I restarted in DOS and
> > ran IBM's
> > disk-check tools, but didn't find any problems with the hard disk.
> 
> 
> *** Never had a HD making a noise but found the Linux log files to be very
> verbose when there is a soft or hardware problem. You did not say if you
> checked yours to see if you have disk seek errors?
> 
> Cheers,
> Zoran
> 
> 
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