[1341] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Sun Oct 27 21:38:37 1996
From: smurphy@stardust.bln.sub.org (Joerg Mertin)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 17:53:03 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: smurphy@antares.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961025131538.17292A-100000@snappy.smithphoto.com> from Mitchell Leben at "Oct 25, 96 01:35:22 pm"
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According to Mitchell Leben:
> Looks like some really bad news and some not so bad news.
>
> On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Rob Hamm wrote:
> > >Mitchell Leben writes:
> > >>
> > >>Here is some of the message:
> > >>Oct 24 23:41:42 spock kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComp
> > >lete DataRequest Error }
> > >>Oct 24 23:41:42 spock kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> > >, LBAsect=3051439, sector=1753135
> > >
> > >Yes. Back up everything you care about *now*. Do not turn the machine
> > >off first; that may accelerate failure. Every time I've heard of this,
> > >it's been the prelude (sometimes quickly) to total drive failure.
> > >Linux gurus have said the same; in particular, Ted Ts'o, who wrote
> > >e2fsck, has had to deal with this question often, and says that it's
> > >always a sign that the drive is about to die; he's had it happen to
> > >himself.
>
> The above is the doomsday analysis. If I go with this it means the drive
> is history, backup now and ship if off with an RMA. Obviously, not
> exactly what I would WISH for. It seems the WD 1.6G do have a bit of bad
> history though.
Can't second that. I use 2 1.6 Gig WD's here for over a year now. The
1.2 Gig WD's, AC21200 Drives where quite bad. They had an Design error
and broke quite fast. Anyway, it also happened to me once and I still
saved it :) I have a System that runs completely with E-IDE. All I did
was to mount a SCSI harddisk (Had a controller in) with running
System, loaded the SCSI-NCR Module which recognised the Drive, a
copied all of the broken drive after having mounted it on /mnt, with
cp -aRv --one-file-system / /mnt :) Worked like charm. Returned the
Drive andgot anew one 4 Weeks later :)
>
> >
> > hmmm... having been in the EXACT same case twice now, I don't think
> > the drive has gone bad. I'd bet the partition table has been corrupted.
> > Both times this has happened to me was on (different) WD drives (1.08
> > and 1.2GB) and both times I lost my system (can you say copy down
> > your partition table onto paper???)
> >
> > Michael is right, get everything you want off the drive now (doubt
> > you can) and if that fails, you might try to rest the partition
> > table from memory (good luck... if you're close you can get hda1
> > back but nothing else)
> >
> > then start over with a new fresh install.
> >
>
> Hmm, this sounds like there is hope! One question though, what exactly is
> the "partition table?" Is this the info from /etc/fstab, the bios info on
> the drive, what? I suppose I should fire up fdisk and take a look.
>
> >{snip}
> > As an aside, what is the recommended method to copy one system to a
> > new disk?
> >
>
> Excellent question!! Anyone?
cp -aRv --one-file-system <filesystem> <mounted drive>
>
> Also, if the drive proves to be OK and I reinstall, what are some
> thoughts on what to install? By this I mean (of course), what RedHat
> release. I have been running 3.0.3 and am quite happy with it. The
> machine serves as a mail server, ftp server, smb and nfs server for mounted
> /homes. I do have 4.0 on one machine, but what is the benefit? I am more
> concerned about stability than small speed increases or gizmos.
I'm also running 3.0.3 on about 60 Maschines at university. I thought
about on installing 4.0 on one of my Servers, but did drop the Idea,
since there where too many Problems not discovered yet. I need a
stable environement, as it's the Only I have for about 30 Clients.
cu
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