From: Robert L Cochran (jwia@plandirect.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 06:00:16 EET
Thanks a lot for the advice. These are Western Digital WD1200JB drives.
I have 2 running with software RAID1. I bought them last September and
have a hard time believing they will crash on me. Software error is much
more likely. But I'm so new to radio that I worried about the 45 watt
Kenwood zorching my machine.
I reinstalled Red Hat Linux and formatted the disks several days ago,
before posting this. I hadn't noticed any messages with the syntax
'unrecoverable error hdx' and the drives (still in a software RAID1
configuration) seem to be performing well as they always had up until
last week.
Another suspect on my list is my Ximian Evolution email client. I had
accumulated about 30,000 emails, maybe more, at the time of the crash
and when it did crash I was using Evolution. Maybe it was really
Evolution's fault?
73,
Bob Cochran
KB3JCM
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:57, M Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:30PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Last week, after transmitting several times on a Kenwood TR-7950
> > connected to my KPC-3 Plus and my (practically brand new) computer, my
> > Red Hat Linux installation simply froze and crashed on me. The hard
> > drive developed all sorts of never before seen (to me at least!) bad
> > blocks and inode issues which e2fsck couldn't cure. I was left realizing
> > I had no choice but to reinstall Red Hat 8. I was getting issues like
> > the 'diff' program suddenly becoming a symlink pointing at 'cut'.
>
> Disconnect and power down the radio, and boot the machine in single
> user mode ('linux single initrd=' at the LILO prompt), and do a complete
> file system check, 'e2fsck' of all the drives. If you are seeing errors
> to the console or syslog (typically in /var/log/messages on RH) about
> an 'Unrecoverable error hdx' where hdx is your harddrive in question (e.g.
> hda, hdb) then you have a disk failure and you should contact your vendor.
>
> If you feel up to it, while reinstalling, tell it to check for bad
> blocks, and if it takes a *very* long time or has a lot of unrecoverable
> errors (check virtual console 2,3,4 (Alt-Fx), not sure which), then contact
> your computer vendor about a disk failure.
>
> > Although an friend of mine thinks it is not possible, I'm wondering if
> > transmitting with this model of Kenwood (which is about 20 years old, I
> > would say) only about 1 foot from my computer and 3 feet from the
> > antenna, caused the system to crash? Perhaps the antenna is simply too
>
> My guess is that the radio itself is not causing the problem, and without
> mentioning the effective radiated power output (W) from the radio/antenna
> I am not certain, but I suspect it is not an EMC/EMI issue. Rule out a
> disk failure before investigating a EMC / EM interference issue.
>
> Good luck
> ve1mct
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