On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Zainal Abidin ACN wrote:
That was your linux drive, wasn't it? Ouch.
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> But, ooo Lord..
> I've got new problem here with my second drive, a big one I believe.
> Oo PLEASE, I hope there will be sulotion to this.
>
> Here's what happened;
>
> Because the fsck forced routine always took place everytime I boot,
> and that was because the shutdown always failed to finish, stopping at
> this message (seems like hang, I saw no disk activity, so I just reset
> or powered it off) :
>
> Unmounthing remote file system
>
> and because it once recommended me like this :
>
> /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> (i.e.; without -a or -p options)
>
> so I ran : fsck.ext2 /dev/hda3 manually.
>
> But, it also failed to finish the checking, displaying repeated likely-
> unfinished messages which I didn't really get it.
> (something like recovering allocation process).
> (Was it because I once found bad sectors on this disk under Win98?).
>
> So, after about one hour (no notion it'll finish), helplessly I just
> pushed the reset button.
>
> And, .... (guess what happen next)
> ON THE FOLLOWING RESTART, MY MACHINE NO LONGER RECOGNISES THIS DRIVE!
You shot yourself in the foot, but you should still be able to limp.
I can't promise anything, and if you can smell the drive electronics
burning, it's dead. But bad blocks and interrupted fsck's should not be
able to make the drive electronics fail. My hd is about the same size
(1.2gb), so it's probably as old. From time to it utterly fails to
boot. I unplug the ribbon cable at each end, unplug the power cable
from the disk, plug everything back in, and try again. Sometimes I have
to do it several times, once I had to find another ribbon cable to try,
but so far I have always managed to get it going again, and all will be
well for months after. You have probably damaged the data on the thing
enough so it will be easier to format it, fdisk it, make new
filesystems on it, and reinstall linux, (maybe fsck can recover it, but
I wouldn't count on it), but I hope you will have something to install
linux on. :-)
Good luck!
Lawson
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>
> What's going on?
>
> I know I shouldn't have pushed that button, but anybody could hold on
> that situation?
>
> So, what to do now. That's really getting my nerves.
>
> Is there any way around to recover the drive?
>
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...
>
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