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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] hd problem
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:12:26 +0000 (UTC)

I warm rebooted again and both drives are working right now - what tests should I run before they stop again, to see if the IDE controller is failing?

I will try to compile a kernel first.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

I was in the middle of compiling a kernel for sound and scsi (I thought I had used the BL2 kernel with scsi modules but it must have been bare.i that worked with scsi_mod and sd_mod and aic7xxx) when my computer started giving me pages of reset I/O error and hdb hd not ready for command status timeout and ide0: unexpected interrupt, status 0xfe, count=0 (up to 40 or so until I hit Ctrl-C). I rebooted out of BL2 and did an e2fsck with BL3 on /dev/hdb2 and it fixed errors. This happened again in BL2, and then in BL3, and I could not reboot from BL3. (I managed to save .config to fd). Now I can't boot to DOS from HD and if i boot from FD freedos finds no hds nor does spinrite or syschk (which did find my two floppy drives) or CMOS auto hdd detection.

Is there first some test I should be trying to run in linux? I tried (before I gave up and powered off and on again to reboot) badblocks but it wants block_count and that is not found in the badblocks man page that I found online. BL3 was not behaving well enough to read the included manpage for badblocks. What is block_count? I could try testing the drives using floppy disk BL3.

Is there some way to test the controller itself rather than the hard drives? I doubt they both went bad at once. The linux filesystem got screwed up several times but that could be the controller.

Sindi




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