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["Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>]

You might hookup a voltmeter and watch the voltages while the disk is
running, especially if you have a meter with a min hold function. The
voltages might be fluctuating only under load. Might also wiggle ribbon
cable while transferring data to see if this causes problems.


-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of sindi keesan
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:12 PM
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] hd problem


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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