Hard disk error

[Liam Proven]

2008/4/28 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
>  > 2008/4/27 Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>:
>  >> Hi,
>  >>
>  >> From few weeks, sometimes (4 to 5 times a day) my ubunty gusty system
>  >> doesnot responds to anything and have to wait a minute or two to use the
>  >> system normally. I check the log. Below is my output of dmesg
>  >>
>  >>  What should I do now?
>  >
>
> > It sounds to me like your hard disk drive is failing. Back up any
>  > important data, get a new one and be ready to replace it as soon as it
>  > dies.
>  >
>  Liam's partly right - I've never seen this sort of error unless the drive is
>  failing.  I just don't agree that you should "get a new one and be ready to
>  replace it" - I'd get a new one and replace it right away!  If your system
>  can support two drives, you might keep the failing one for non-important
>  storage.  I've found some of these drives to be fairly reliable once you
>  take things like swap off them, but I would never again trust it with
>  anything important.

Well, actually, I can't fault that logic! :¬)

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