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List:       mozilla-os2
Subject:    Re: Firefox 10.05esr and seamonkey-2.7.2.en-US.os2.10.5esr
From:       Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT () ntlworld ! com>
Date:       2012-06-28 23:29:07
Message-ID: 9uqdnZ61E6RYdXHSnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d () mozilla ! org
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Hi

Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:02:24 UTC in mozilla.dev.ports.os2, David Arturo Macias
> Corona<dmacias@mail.udg.mx>  wrote:
>
>> Trevor Hemsley wrote:
>>>> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
>>>> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
>>>> # 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%     10263        32618056
>>>> # 2  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%     10261        32618056
>>>
>>> And this bit doesn't look good either, 90% of the way through a long smart test,
>>> it crapped out trying to read the same sector on two different runs.
>
>> Many facts point to problems in HDD, so I am looking for a new one.
>> I want a Sata III, 1.5 Tb size
>
> I think you will be OK with this as long as you are up to date - os2dasd.dmd had
> a 512GB limit until a few years ago for example but on eCS 2.x you should be OK
> with all this. Having said that I've never booted an OS/2 system from a disk of
> that size although I did have a Netcell RAID card in my OS/2 system for a long
> time with a 640GB array and that was fine - but I didn't boot from it.
>
>> But usual questions arise:
>>
>> - Should I replace only HDD or should I replace most hardware ?
>
> That depends on the age of the rest of the hardware and its condition. I'm
> running with a Core2Duo E6850 3GHz processor and a 5 year old motherboard here
> and it's still plenty fast enough.
>
>>    Is good time to up-grade, considering work to do  :-)
>> - When ? Upgrading take a lot of time to prepare all OS involved
>> - What ? It is not easy to find new hardware (MoBo, multi-core, cards,
>> ... ) supported by ecs21
>> - Size of HDD ? All seem go around 500 Gb line supported by ecs21
>> without tricks
>
> I just put a spare Crucial m4 128GB SSD into my main OS/2 machine and it has
> made a *huge* difference. I went from an LSI MegaRAID Express 500 hardware RAID
> controller with 128MB cache RAM and a pair of Fujitsu 15k rpm 73GB disks in RAID
> 1 to the SSD and my boot time has decreased from ~2 minutes to 22 seconds. It's
> similarly speedy in general use though it's really too soon to tell how reliable
> it will be and how it will slow down over time due to the lack of TRIM support
> in OS/2. SSD prices have pretty much halved here in the UK in the last 6 weeks!
> I paid only a little more for a new 256GB SSD two weeks ago than I did for this
> 128GB one in January 2012.
>
>> For example, DFSee report 35 "bad spots"
>
> That fits fairly well with the 31 pending sectors reported by SMART - it found
> another 4 while it was scanning. It's definitely on its way out and you should
> be backing up your critical files on a regular basis in case it dies completely.
>
>> In other event, I have problems to update an SVN directory in J:
>> partition, recently prepared for ecs21 tests with JFS
>> ( my daily work is with ecs20, with these computer+HDD installed around
>> 3.5 years )
>>
>> Playing with DFSee:DFSCHECK J:, it report problems with files in those
>> directories
>>
>> An ecs20 CHKDSK J: show info included below, with main fact:
>>     "CHKDSK  File system is dirty but is marked clean"
>
> You will always get this if you run against a JFS partition with files that are
> open. If using it with the /F switch refuses to run because it's in use then any
> report without /F will be unreliable and report problems that don't really
> exist. OTOH, if you are running it with /F and it is really checking it then you
> do have  a problem.
>
>


Probably the best way to use chkdsk is during boot. Force the full 
chkdsk against all jfs formatted drives by using the line below:-

IFS=L:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:+*


Regards

Pete
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