On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:04:41AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Monday 31 January 2005 08:55, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
swap space is indeed on that disk (/dev/hda2), but as I indicated in one of the (many:) previous posts: I've done the same tests from a rescue cd, without any of the partitions mounted, and the results were the same. Also: /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda3 are not showing the same slowdown. When you ran from the rescue, did you check to see if swap was disabled.
Not that I recall. Does SuSE rescue automatically allocate the swap space on the HDs, and use it?
In any case, your drive could be bad eventhough no badblocks are detected. There could be an excessive number of retries.
I intend to run that Maxtor utility on it later this week to see if it can figure out if something's wrong. The tests that can be performed are limited since data is on the disk. I really must consider finding a place to store that data, and perform a complete HD test. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff