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

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jason Chall wrote:

> All your voltages sound fine to me. The fan error may be because it is
> powered directly from the power supply rather than through the
> motherboard.Definetly sounds like your IDE controller is bad. Do you have a
> second IDE channel on the board you could try? Also did you check to see if
> BIOS sees the disks? Maybe this is obvious, but try using a different ribbon
> cable, they go bad.

We have a CD-ROM drive plugged into the second IDE controller which also 
was not recognized.

We just fixed another computer where the floppy drive often did not work 
by changing the cable.

> Good luck,

Thanks.  It started working again and I have a new kernel (with its own 
problems).

> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of sindi keesan
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:53 PM
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [BL] hd problem
>
>
> 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.
>
> The HD power down is disabled.
> CPU tempeartures 37C/98F, MB temperature 31/87.
> CPU Fan Speed: xxxxRPM [Err]  - is this a problem?
> VCORE Voltage: 2.2V
> +3.3V Voltage 3.4-3.5V - is this a problem?
> +12V  is 12.3
> -12V is -11.7
> +5 is 5.0-5.1
>
> The problem actually started last night but was not severe and went away.
>
> The CD-ROM drive was not found either, suggesting a controller problem.
>
> The floppy controller works.  Is it likely I could fix the problem by
> disabling the onboard IDE controller and putting in a newish controller
> card (with support for disks over 504MB)?
>
> 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.
>
> I do not currently have a way to use a browser.  (A separate problem). I
> am dialed into a shell account and lynx is producing 7-bit garbage.  The
> free ISP is running at 0-500 bytes/sec late afternoons so I gave up on it.
> I got as far as google's list of sites discussing block_count and this
> seems to be a feature of Redhat 4's badblocks.
>
> This is my super-speedy computer (300MHz) but a friend just offered me his
> old 400MHz 'with lots of bays'.  I could probably just move over the
> drives but I don't want to give up on this one if it is fixable.  (It was
> given us to recycle but so were most of our other computers.)  It was
> working perfectly until last night.
>
>
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