Re: new kernels and disk crash!

Hi,

Mouse wrote:
> But not necessarily totally busted.  "Read retries exhausted" sounds to
> me like a (now-)bad sector, not a whole-drive failure.

to me too.. I did run fsck -fy and let it go... it missed lots and lots 
of sectors, which seemed contiguous.
Once mounted, i tried to copy some directories to salvage things, but 
tar barfed either about in the same area, or in another are... so like 
"two holes".

Luckily I found a replacement disk in my stuff... but the supply is 
getting scarce.

I wonder how a disk gets bad sectors when just sitting there, this is a 
"racked workstation". I thought bad sectors on modern disks were more 
for disk suffering shocks. For "stationary" application I thought board 
failures or motor failures were more the thing.

Riccardo