Hello everbody,
I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and
attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors
since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and
restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4
where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to reset
the box. Now I get a kernel panic - Cannot open root
device "hdb4".
Booted from install CD and ran dmesg:
hdb: dma_intr: error 0x84 {DriveStatusError Bad CRC}
dma_intr: status 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete
error}
a bunch of these ending with
ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed.
fdisk displays the partitions all right but attempts
to mount /dev/hdb4 came up with, special device
/dev/hdb4 does not exist.
e2fsck: no such file, bad superblock
tune2fs: couldn't find valid fs superblock
Is my hard-drive toast? This is the same one you may
recall I had so much trouble with a few months back.
Will it be possible to fix? Or at least make readable?
-mw
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