Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonDeath Became Itcomputers/deaddisk-20040518http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/deaddisk-20040518For the last few weeks I've been seeing weird DMA errors from the kernel when I start using my laptop, ... For the last few weeks I've been seeing weird DMA errors from the kernel when I start using my laptop, and the wifi card has been a pain when I insert it. I put this down to the new kernel or some package updates... until tonight when I tried to use the laptop to be greeted with a number of decidedly non-trivial messages...

A fsck.ext3 later and the disk is worse, some dentrys are invalid and I've a number of bad sectors. Arse. Luckily I had enough time before the disk fell apart to boot my desktop and run unison, so I have a backup of 90% of my personal files, but reinstalling the laptop is not a task I'm looking forward to. My magical interfaces file took me ages to get right!

Sigh, the return is filed with Hitachi so I'll be sending the disk off tomorrow and will receive a replacement, well, in the future.

Rock On Time Dub, King Tubby. Must get more dub to go with the bassier headphones I'll be getting.

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