[ltp] Is my T23 thinkpad hard drive failing?

[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, it may be something on my gentoo system--not sure whether that 
makes me feel better or worse. I forced a check on reboot with tune2fs 
but after that theproblem seemed even worse; I could hardly do anything 
without messages about the ext3 journal aborting or I/O error or both. 
So I stuck in my Knoppix cd and rebooted and ran e2fsck on the relevant 
devices with knoppix running. Rebooted to my system and haven't had an 
error or grinding noise yet. Of course it's only been fifteen minutes 
but the noise and errors were coming pretty much as soon as I tried to 
do something before. So if this continues and i don't track down the 
problem, I could be looking at a reinstall. Either way, I may consider 
getting a new hard drive; whatever the problem is I seem to have averted 
immediate disaster.

Thanks for the tip about the maintenance guide!!!


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."