[wplug] fsck running in background?

[Christopher DeMarco]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:05:58PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> > After a bit of googling it appears this is either a drive failure or
> > a bad cable. Since the drive and cable are both new, either is
> > possible. 

This also happens when  "bad" media is put  into a (CD|DVD)-ROM drive.
Whereas MS Windows will typically either cope with the bad media using
proprietary kung-fu or hang horribly  using proprietary suck-fu, Linux
helpfully indicates that things are going  south for the winter before
locking up the IDE bus.

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Christopher DeMarco <cdemarco at fastmail.fm>          
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