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>On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> On Thursday, I shutdown my SuSE Linux 6.2 system (kernel 2.2.12) to
>> reboot into Windows. As it was shutting down it hung just after
>> unmounting the filesystems, giving me several error messages about not
>> being able to reboot (which I was too stupid to write down). I did a
>> reset and booted into Windows. When I tried to reboot my linux system,
>
>> lilo started up and the kernel began to load. Just after the line,
>"INIT
>> version 2.76 booting" the system goes into a loop printing out:
>>
>> hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
>}
>> hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=157529
>> sector=157466
[gobs of error messages snipped]
>>
>>
>> The drive in question is a Western Digital AC32500H, 2.5 GB IDE drive.
>
>That is bigger and newer than any of my hd's :-)
Well, if I can't get it to work, you want me to send it to you? :-)
>>
>> My question you all is, is there someway of fixing this? Can I get my
>> system back? Is the drive hosed? (Obviously it is not working
>properly;
>> I am referring to the relative severity of the errors.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Sean
>>
>The first thing I do if I have trouble with a hd is unplug all the
>cables (both ends of the ribbon cable and the power cable) and plug
>them back in again. That fixes an awful lot of disk problems. If you
>are feeling wealthy, replace the ribbon cable (about $4 US). Oh, take
>off the master/slave jumper and put it back on again, to try and scrape
>some dust off the contact, or try a new jumper. For a while last Summer
>I had to put my 1.2 gig Western Digital in the fridge for 5-10 minutes
>or it wouldn't boot. Worked fine after that though, and has worked fine
>since.
>
I've redone the cables, but that has not fixed the problem. An odd thing
is that this drive also has the swap for my slackware system on it, and
that seems to be going ok so far. 'Course, I could just be lucky so far
that I haven't hit any corruption on the swap partition.
How did you come up with the idea of putting the drive in the fridge?
(Sorry, but it is not one of the usual troubleshooting tips I hear.)
>If none of that helps, you may still be able to get some more mileage
>out of the puppy by running e2fsck -c to mark the bad blocks and not try
>to use them any more.
>
Haven't tried this yet. It's up next after I try to salvage some files
using tar.
>If all else fails, save the data you can't just reinstall, typically
>/etc, /home, and any other place you might have stuff you are working
>on, format the hd, reinstall and restore your saved data. tar is an
>excellent save/restore utility. Sometimes the format track command will
>fix problems with a hd, but I have only seen this with hd's that were
>trashed by the cmd640_vlb chip (maybe there was an ISA version that did
>it too, but that was before my time (the IDE driver can detect and evade
>the cmd640 PCI chip)). The msdose format program can work, or if you
>like to try patching a kernel I have patches to 2.0.30, 2.0.32, 2.0.36
>(IIRC I used that with 2.0.37 and 2.0.38 also, the IDE driver didn't
>change) 2.2.13, and 2.2.14 to make a format track ioctl, and a crude
>little hdformat utility. Just tell me which kernel version you have
>handy, and I can send a patch file. I have tested them on my box, but
>AFAIK nowhere else. If someone else has success with them, maybe I will
>get motivated to try and get them included in the stock kernel. :-)
>
>I have been bit by the cmd640_vlb, which is why I have a kernel version
>to recover from it.
>>
This system was running 2.2.12, and I have sources for 2.2.13 and 2.2.14.
If I have to rebuild it, I will reinstall SuSE 6.2 and then update to
SuSE 6.3. I already have the cds; I was just waiting for a good
opportunity. Can't really say this is a "good" opportunity, but it is an
opportunity. Just wish I wasn't crashing on a couple of programming
assignments while all this is going on.
>Lawson
>
>Installation is performed in the reverse order of removal.
> - British Leyland shop manual
>
Cheers,
Sean
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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