Hi,
Was running Myth CVS just great as of about a week ago. Have about 60gb
worth of shows recorded, and then things just "hung". Couldn't even task
switch to do a clean shutdown. Did a hard reset and then it wouldn't even
load up lilo - gave me an Error 0x10 (media error). Booted from Mandrake 9
CD 1, got to point where the install was ready to pick a partition and
switched to another session and repaired the /dev/hda5 partition (where I
load from) and got things working again (after it fixed a zillion errors).
It then booted up ok, I made sure to back everything up to another networked
PC, and it ran ok for 24 hours then hung again. Now it won't boot again.
This PC had run perfectly for about 2 years with Win2k and never a glitch of
trouble. Do you think turning on the dma stuff as suggested in the
setup/faq could have screwed it up? If so, would it really take a few weeks
to screw up?
Also, should I try and switch the file system (using linux default now -
ext2 right?) to some journaled one or something "safer"?
Finally, is there an exhaustive test that I can run to see what/where the
problem is (like dma or some parameter)? I hate to throw out an 80gb
7200rpm drive but if it's really bad I will. I'm almost tempted to reformat
with NTFS and see how long it will run Win2k again - "almost" being the key
word there.
What's the right/best way to repair the partition if any?
Thanks for any advice,
JC
Still a linux newbie!
Was running Myth CVS just great as of about a week ago. Have about 60gb
worth of shows recorded, and then things just "hung". Couldn't even task
switch to do a clean shutdown. Did a hard reset and then it wouldn't even
load up lilo - gave me an Error 0x10 (media error). Booted from Mandrake 9
CD 1, got to point where the install was ready to pick a partition and
switched to another session and repaired the /dev/hda5 partition (where I
load from) and got things working again (after it fixed a zillion errors).
It then booted up ok, I made sure to back everything up to another networked
PC, and it ran ok for 24 hours then hung again. Now it won't boot again.
This PC had run perfectly for about 2 years with Win2k and never a glitch of
trouble. Do you think turning on the dma stuff as suggested in the
setup/faq could have screwed it up? If so, would it really take a few weeks
to screw up?
Also, should I try and switch the file system (using linux default now -
ext2 right?) to some journaled one or something "safer"?
Finally, is there an exhaustive test that I can run to see what/where the
problem is (like dma or some parameter)? I hate to throw out an 80gb
7200rpm drive but if it's really bad I will. I'm almost tempted to reformat
with NTFS and see how long it will run Win2k again - "almost" being the key
word there.
What's the right/best way to repair the partition if any?
Thanks for any advice,
JC
Still a linux newbie!