On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:40:14 -0500, elefino
I have SuSE 9.2 on an old Athlon 1.1 system, with two identical 30GB hard drives. One has the "/" and "/boot" partitions, and the other has the "/swap" and "/home" partitions. I'm using ext3, only because I saw some warnings in this list about problems with Reiserfs that I previously used for a few years.
Following a recent YOU update, I was having slowdowns and glitches (the system had been up for two or three months), so I shut it down the other night and restarted the next morning. I was unable to load from HD, and unable to repair.
I kept getting this message during startup: "JDB barrier-based sync failed on hda3 - disabling barriers" Google gives exactly one hit on that.
I re-installed from DVD (including allowing YOU to bring the system up-to-date). At the next reboot, I get the "barrier-based sync failed" message again, but at least the system is currently working (and I"m writing this in KMail).
My question is: Am I more likely looking at a kernel-related issue, or a hard-disk hardware problem?
I'm considering walking across the street to my friendly neighborhood computer store and buying a replacement hard disk for HDA. There have been no complaints from the system about HDB (which I mentioned is the same model as HDA). But if this is system/kernel related, then I'd be wasting my money.
What do the wise ones say?
Kevin
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