On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:08:29PM +0530, Philip S Tellis 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?
>
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Philip,
I had faced this problem earlier. It was a hardware problem.
This was on my P-75 with 1 Gig /dev/hda which had Win-98 and
Linux on /dev/hdb.
As Naren has correctly stated, the HDD had reached EOL. In
any case, I was able to recover 100% and transfer all data to
another HDD. I had followed the following steps:
o Pressed all cables and cards.
o Booted through Linux once and mounted hda. Shut down.
o Booted through a Win-98 boot floppy and did a scandisk on
the 32 bit partitions. It made a fair amount of repairs.
o Booted theough Linux and transferred the whole 1 Gig to
hdb (Linux partition).
o Got a new drive for hda and replaced old one totally. Just
transferred to a 1 GB /dev/hda1 32 bit partition. (The new
hard disk had a larger capacity).
o Nothing lost. After recovering LILO on MBR, I could dual
boot once again.
HTH
Bish
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