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Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drink)
Fri Oct 25 15:57:49 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:44:50 -0400
From: drink <drink@cloud9.net>
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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.
>
> 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?
>
Could this be a WD problem? I've had this happen several times to me
now. Last night i got the kernel panic and I'm pretty sure hda5 (/usr)
is gone for good now. I've got a WD Caviar 2700. I don't have the
mother board problem that was mentioned, I've got a Pentium 133 with a
Shuttle (generic Intel) HOT-541 motherboard. It is possable that my
drive is gonna need a shallow grave soon because it is rather old and
has been used on more machines than I care to remember... the odd thing
is that the problems started as soon as I put Linux on it, Windows 3.11
was on it for years without a complaint. Well I'm off to mail tech
support.
Craig
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