I lost my Linux box

[crunch]

I got home last night after Tropfest and jumped on line to get my email. I logged into the linux box and .......... Every command I typed came back with a serious error. It looked like a machine that had been hacked. I dumped it off the ethernet and put a CRT on it and.... HDA errors... streams of them.. Anything I did caused an HDA error message. Damn hard disk had failed :( Luckily it doesn't actually DO much these days. worst case I will have lost a pile of email that was all dealt with. But it means it needs a rebuild again. Annoying but not impossible.

Then I get to work this monring and discover that one of our LARGE fuji Xerox printers had been rain damaged in the storms on saturday and the top section had filled with water.. (LOTS of water) Luckily thats not MY problem only SOMBODYS problem.

Comments

[baralier.livejournal.com]

Is that the Linux equivalent of a BSD?

[darthmdh.livejournal.com]

BSOD you mean?

Not really. The Unix|Linux equivalent of a BSOD is a "kernel panic" (or worse, a BUG. Never seen a BUG triggered though that I can recall). These were simply kernel messages saying "dude, I think its time you bought a new hard drive because all I'm hearing from the one you got now resembles alphabetti spaghetti"

See, in a real operating system, when a hard disk fails you slap a new one in & restore from your backup tape (or let the RAID array rebuild ;). This same thing in Windows actually causes a BSOD (been there - with an IBM DeathStar 75GXP) because the underlying OS is flimsier than a pre-pan pancake; a hdd corruption/death is the end of the world rather than a minor irritation.