Disk failure detected by Ubuntu.

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 23:11 -0600, Paul Tader wrote:
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> - Notebook BIOS didn't report anything.
> - Windows didn't report anything (maybe if I could get to the event
> viewer before it locked up)
> - Ubuntu (using the Palimpsest utility) saw it right away and reported
> it to the user.

I actually just recently had a very similar experience with a laptop we
were fixing for a friend. It had vista on the laptop, and it had stared
locking up and crashing (more than usual) along with general crap
performance (worse than typical vista), and the laptop battery was dying
really fast, and the laptop itself was unusually hot. I suspected
hardware, as from the software side, everything looked normal... 

First thing I did when I got a hold of it was I stuck a karmic LiveCD in
there, and sure enough the drive was going bad at a rapid pace. We
managed to back up all his info just in time, as on the very next boot
the hard drive got super-hot and started clicking. 

My personal opinion is that Palimpsest is probably one of the most
useful additions to ubuntu I've seen in a long while, and I can't wait
to see what they follow up with!

-- 
Andrew
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