philip,
your problem seems grave... :(
check your hdd.. if its a seagate hdd, you can
download software that checks drive integrity from the
seagate web site..
since u said its making a humming noise.. my first
guess is that your hdd is living on its final
breaths,... so backup as such as u can... u might lose
data on your ext partitions also
you also said that you're unable to boot from your
vfat partition.... gives the feeling that its
definately the hardware at fault... happens more
during the monsoons due to extreme humidity...
is this computer in a non-A/C room ?
to fix this problem u cud try the foll..
1) keep trying to mount the hdd.. using the hdd
continuously for 2-3 hours could heat it up and may be
u could access the partition after that.
if this fails...
2) run to a professional data recovery guy... get the
data copied to another hdd and then try formatting the
hdd in a single partition in ext2.. if u get errors
while formatting.. u know for certain that ur hdd is
dead.
all this, of course, means a lot of uninvited work
:(
good luck anyways....
satsco.
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--- Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have one ext2 partition, two fat32 partitions and
> one fat16 partition.
>
> I can mount the ext2 and fat16 partitions, but am
> unable to mount the
> vfat (fat32) partitions.
>
> When I try to mount them, the hard disk makes a
> humming sound, and I get
> these errors:
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=5221126, sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
>
> This happens everytime.
>
> I tried disabling dma and then mounting, and I get
> these errors:
>
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=5221126, sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
> I am unable to boot into the fat32 partitions
> either.
>
> I have not used Windows for several months now, so
> don't think that this
> is a windows related problem, and I was able to
> mount the partitions
> last night, but not since this afternoon.
>
> Shutdown was uneventful the last time I used the
> fat32 partitions. I
> have all my documentation stored on those partitions
> and refer to them
> frequently.
>
> Any ideas as to what has happened and how I may be
> able to fix it?
>
> Philip
>
>
>
>
>
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