[Tpctl-users] configure-thinkpad killed my root filesystem (or at least helped to do so)?

[Michael M. <rm...@gm...>]

ok, Maybe it's just a bad coincidence, and configure-thinkpad hasn't 
anything to do with it. But it happened exactly then when i started it 
up the first time. (I have no idea how it would be able to do that).

Well i compiled the tool.
Started it up.
And in this moment the computer stopped to reacted, the mp3 stopped 
playing, and nothing worked anymore, after a while it reacted again, but 
really slowly.
As i saw the root filesystem got remounted read-only.
And in Syslog i had following errors (there have been more, but they 
haven't been saved on the harddisk):

Aug 10 21:01:28 localhost kernel: thinkpad: I have registered to handle 
major: 10 minor: 170.
Aug 10 21:01:29 localhost kernel: smapi: 32-bit protected mode SMAPI 
BIOS found. :-)
Aug 10 21:01:29 localhost kernel: smapi: SMAPI BIOS return codes differ!
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: ata1: command 0xc8 timeout, stat 0xd0 
host_stat 0x24
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: ata1: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 
0x8000002
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Aborted Command
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel:     Additional sense: Scsi parity error
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
sector 3306927
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x1F7
Aug 10 21:01:59 localhost last message repeated 2 times

well i had the greate idea: well just restart. and everything will be ok 
again.
well it wasn't!
Lilo wasn't able to find any filesystem anymore on the root partition 
(the home partition has been just fine, even it's on the same HDD).
With a live cd i found out that there seems to be no filesystem left.
Well with the fsck tools i've been ablte to recover it again. But a lot 
of files (specially config files) have been missing.

I used it on a
Thinkpad T43
Debian testing
kernel 2.6.11
reiserfs

if you want more informations, just ask...

i don't know if everything just has been a bad coincidence. But i'm not 
willing to try it out again, since i need to do some work with my 
laptop.. not playing around.
Only wanted to report that. Maybe there's a little bug?

greetings

Michael