[939] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hamm)
Fri Oct 25 13:51:27 1996
From: Rob Hamm <hammr@ucfv.bc.ca>
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
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>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.
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.
In my cases, this happened because
1) I was dual booting with dos and lost the linux partition
on one boot (no other reason.... I swear)
2) I was trying to copy my existing system onto a new hard drive
and lost the original disk's partition (yes I had the dd
going the right direction)
As an aside, what is the recommended method to copy one system to a
new disk?
--
Rob Hamm
Systems Administrator
University College of the Fraser Valley
http://www.ucfv.bc.ca/
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