may your hard disk rest in peace
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:02 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
> 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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