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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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