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10-02-2010, 06:24 AM
So apparently a certain generation of SATA cables are notorious for coming loose. Same kind I have on my hard drive!
Recently I started having problems on my Linux partition. This is one of four partitions on the same hard drive, and only one was ever affected - the effect was that a certain time after booting, the drive would become unwritable.
Note: Not unreadable. Reads worked fine. Only writes would fail.
Does that sound like the sort of thing a loose cable could cause? I was sure it was some kind of corruption in my Ubuntu installation. Wound up formatting that partition trying to fix it, only to have the format freeze because the drive was reporting write failures!
So I opened the case and wiggled the SATA cable - which didn't even feel loose - and the problem was solved.
If you ever get one of those things, the first response you should have to any kind of file system problem is check the SATA cable because goddamn.
Recently I started having problems on my Linux partition. This is one of four partitions on the same hard drive, and only one was ever affected - the effect was that a certain time after booting, the drive would become unwritable.
Note: Not unreadable. Reads worked fine. Only writes would fail.
Does that sound like the sort of thing a loose cable could cause? I was sure it was some kind of corruption in my Ubuntu installation. Wound up formatting that partition trying to fix it, only to have the format freeze because the drive was reporting write failures!
So I opened the case and wiggled the SATA cable - which didn't even feel loose - and the problem was solved.
If you ever get one of those things, the first response you should have to any kind of file system problem is check the SATA cable because goddamn.