fsck may not return what you really want to know. Best advice is
to go to the manufacturers website and download their disk
utility. With that you can do a full scan on the disk and find
out what bad sectors there are and/or if the drive is worth
saving by doing a low format.
--- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing euglug in a time of need...
>
> This morning, I sat down at my linux workstation only to find
> it stuck
> and not doing anything. The hard drive light was in an always
> on mode.
> So, I powered down and rebooted.
>
> When it came back up, LILO loaded ok and it tried to boot my
> usual linux
> kernel. It got part way thru and shows something like this:
>
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete
> DataRequest Error}
> hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {Uncorrectable Error},
> LBAsect=385623 \
> Sector=0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:45 (hdb), sector 2
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>
> There were a few more of the above repeating for different
> sectors,
> which I assume are the other partitions. The above is my root
> partition.
>
> Any ideas? It doesn't seem like my hard drive is toast since
> the BIOS
> sees it, and the above error says the drive is ready and the
> head was
> able to seek to a certain position.
>
> Should I try Tom's Root boot and e2fsck the drive (if I can)?
> If I
> can't, what next?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
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