Re[2]: I/O error on hda?

I've also seen the same thing... When the battery drains, the microdrive
stops working long before the iPAQ does... Actually, what happens is when
it tries to spin the disk up, the battery voltage drops too low for the
disk to work... but not too low for the iPAQ.

Jim

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:01:57 -0500 Jesse Sarnovsky <jsarnov@exobrain.com> wrote:

> I've had similar trouble with the microdrive and have had no trouble
> with the compact flash cards. I believe it has something to do with the
> power consumption and the unfortunate moving parts required in the
> microdrive. I've also seen the problems much worse on the 38xx series
> than the 37xx which also leads me to believe it's related to the only
> partially functional apm support.
>
> If you're in a hurry, I'd suggest making sure your Familiar installation
> is properly auto-mounting the microdrive when it's inserted. In the
> event you get a lock up, just eject the card, hit the reset, wait for
> the system to load, pop in the card, after it's done automounting,
> reboot back into Intimate.
>
> Sorry I can't help you more, but I've had tons of problems with it too.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: intimate-admin@handhelds.org [mailto:intimate-admin@handhelds.org]
> On Behalf Of Norman Walsh
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:53 PM
> To: intimate@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [Intimate] I/O error on hda?
>
> / "Jesse Sarnovsky" <jsarnov@exobrain.com> was heard to say:
> | After familiar is up and running, insert the microdrive. More than
> | likely, it will detect the type as reiserfs and try to mount it which
> | will check it's transaction log.
>
> Yes, this gets me back to working, but what I really want is to avoid
> having the thing crash again. I'll be on the road for two weeks with
> no laptop, just the ipaq. It's a bit hard to run commands on the iPAQ
> without a serial terminal :-/
>
> I was hoping there was something I could run that would grovel over
> the whole disk, identify bad sectors, and mark them as unusable so
> this would stop happening.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
Received on Sat Mar 16 03:27:57 2002