From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Tolpin Message-Id: <200403032025.i23KPb4Z053270@adat.davidashen.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o error: wrenwrite In-Reply-To: <20040303201135.GA5853@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:25:37 +0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 110a7cf6-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > Oh my, the dread Deathstar 75GXP. > > Before you go any further, I'd recommend downloading Hitachi's (formerly > IBM's) Drive Fitness Test floppy image and run its "advanced" drive test > a few times. Your disk may be about to go toes-up. > > http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Thank you, of course I will. But for me the problem is not the disk fails (in case it does); but that the diagnostics is problematic. Anyway, I am going to test the disk and debug the kernel.