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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 22:23:17 +0000 (UTC)

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.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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