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

[Mark Nye]

Thanks to all of you for the input. No disk seek or I/O errors in 
/var/log/messages...only the note written during restart that "read-only 
filesystem recovery necessary". I suspect that James is right: no error 
messages were written because the drive had stopped working. 

Perhaps my safest bet is to replace the drive. Does anyone have a US side 
source for good, used Thinkpad parts?

all the best,
Mark



On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:13 am, you wrote:
> 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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