Looks like time to dust and check the ceiling for drips, the drive maybe
recuable but it does appear to be failing (if not dead already) pull it
and see what happens, hopefully the masq wierdness will stop, if it
doesn't, something else is likely the cause for both the drive death and
nic :/ basicly not looking good from here. What's on the drive?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, WH Bouterse wrote:
> Linux-Mandrake 6.1 with upgrades
>
> My /dev/hdb drive went out last night.
> I still have
>
> /dev/hdc1 2.8G 2.6G 124M 95% /
> /dev/hda1 1004M 988M 16M 98% /dosc
> /dev/hda3 446M 435M 0 100% /morelinux
> /dev/hdc3 2.9G 1.4G 1.3G 51% /homelinux
>
> My lilo.conf is
>
> boot=/dev/hdc1
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> linear
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk-cust1
> label=linux1
> root=/dev/hdc1
> read-only
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7"
>
> I have to use boot disk to load.
>
> I get these errors
>
> home kernel: hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
> Feb 7 11:22:02 home modprobe: can't locate module ide-disk
> Feb 7 11:22:02 home kernel: hdb: driver not present
> Feb 7 11:22:02 home kernel: hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 PHYSICAL HEADS?
> Feb 7 11:22:02 home modprobe: can't locate module ide-disk
> Feb 7 11:22:02 home kernel: hdb: driver not present
>
> Obviously with the missing Drive I will get some errors
> but is there a way to have system working properly again.
> If I try to access my internal lan connection or
> I try to access "outside" from internal machine through
> my previously working IPMASQ setup I get I get a
> kernel panic.
>
> Should I go ahead and install/reinstall?
> Was hoping there might be a way around this.
>
> Thanks
>
> William Bouterse
> Juneau Alaska
>
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