-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:49:42 +0100 Toby Satchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it > didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. > (Its only a home server and more of a project/experiment so not that > important) > But when it came back up and tried to boot into the kernel I got > these errors: > > Current sda: sense key medium Error > Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 11367019 > scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun0. CDB: Read (10) 00 06 ef 15 00 > 00 74 0 > > I only just managed to get this as the screen was continually > updating. I am not sure where to go from here, as the errors stopped > and asked do I want to either remount the HDD with RW options or to > enter the root password and manually admin it. > > I put a-load of data as a backup on one of the partitions before I > lost the samba share but it seems that was not copied across due to > the partition usage size not changing. ( had booted into a XP > partition on the server to check that worked also check the > partitions and they seemed fine so i am completely confused. > > Never seen this before, not sure entirely what the problem is or how > to fix it. When I got that error just over a month ago it was a dead SATA drive. I would immediately do any backups you can and hope that you can claim warranty on the drive. Booting your computer from a Knoppix cd is probably the most likely method to work to get data off the drive, if there is any hope at all. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEPVaGkpJ43hY3cTURAsNKAKCJxUB8vHKp7XvGEodVbgnMjUzJQQCeOsC/ SnXwsXHtI2z9OuwSnO/0+ek= =VcQ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----