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| On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:56:09PM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > I have no idea if my hdd has gone haywire or there's something wrong > > > with the latest snapshot, but my computer just froze 4 or 5 times, w/o me > > > being able to do anything, at boot time. > > > wd0l: aborted command, interface CRC error reading fsbn 4343168 of 4343168-4343199 (wd0 bn 11783216; cn 11689 tn 11 sn 11), retrying > > > wd0: soft error (corrected) > > Your hard drive is dying. Really. This is not a software problem. > > The DRIVE itself is telling us those specific errors are occurring. > > Damn, this was what I was most afraid of... I'm broke 'till next month's > paycheck. Thanks for the quick reply! Whatever you do, *don't* run this drive until then. (Just keeping backups is not necessarily sufficient - data may become corrupted.) Seriously, borrow something if you have to. Or just don't run the machine, if that is an option. Joachim -- PotD: x11/slock - simple X screen locker |