It's a Maxtor 4 Gig drive that's been running for several months, and this
is the first time I've seen any of the status error/drive not ready messages.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How big is your hard disk? I've had these problems when using IDE hard
> disks that were about 10G or more. I would get a number of those below but
> eventually it would continue and boot normally. But otherwise I recommend
> a resinstall because it will be hard to recover all the missing shared
> libraries. Actually when you run a new install make sure you do both a
> format and check for bad blocks. This probably happened during fsck so
> many of those times when fsck says:
> /dev/hda1 has deleted or unused inode and asks to clear it and you say yes
> you can actually cause damage.
> > > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: read_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> > hda: status error: status=0x00 {}
> > hda: drive not ready for command
> > hda: status error: status=0x00 {}
> > hda: drive not ready for command
> > hda: status error: status=0x00 {}
> > hda: drive not ready for command
> > hda: status error: status=0x00 {}
> > hda: drive not ready for command
> > ide0: reset: success
> >
> > Any way I can log in? Time to re-install?
> >
> > Looks like a hardware problem too. Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.webzone.net/jdreimer
> >
>
>
> Noah
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
-jdr-
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