[iyonix-support] Re: Hard disc problems

In message <3908629.1166465273676.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
uk>
          Tony Abbey <afa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Help please
> 
> After some years of trusty service with occasional complete lockups
> needing reboots, my Iyonix is not well. The machine was on but with the
> monitor off, and it had some sort of unseen crash, and on bootup there
> was a message about the 2 disc maps not agreeing with one another - I
> tried to run the relevant correction suggested, but I believe that hung
> up or completed (cant quite remember that one now). Now I seem to have
> very slow hard disc access and thousands of directories - apparently 4
> per minute during 1st to 11th of December each containing a single crash
> dump log file from Aemulor. The main problem at the moment is that the
> machine hangs if I try to delete one. Fortunately, I have managed to
> back up the machine over the network to my LinuxPC with very few files
> unreadable - 11.5GB total. What do I do next?
> 
> 
> Tony Abbey                     E-mail: afa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Space Research Centre          Phone: +44 116 252 3490
> Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Fax: +44 116 252 2464
> University of Leicester, University Road
> LEICESTER LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
> SRC Web Page: http://www.src.le.ac.uk/

Try running DiscKnight on the drive and Verify as well to see of the 
harddisc is OK or corrupted.

If you haven't got DiscKnight then you can use the free checker at

http://www.armclub.org.uk/products/discknight/

The Free version is called DiscKnight Disc checker and only checks 
discs but does not repair them.

Also, try stopping anything being run from your !Boot sequence to 
check for a problem in an application.

The only time I got a hard disc failure before wasn't just before the 
harddisc gave out a grating sound and died.

Doug

-- 
Using a Iyonix PC 512Mb, RISC OS5.12, !NetFetch & !MessengerPro.
All based on UK technology, No Microsoft Windows here
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