Thanks. maybe you are right. when I tried to use different usb to ide adapter to connect the hard drive, things became different. but there still has some errors when reading or writing.
--- On Sun, 20/4/08, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: badblock can not be detected > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Sunday, 20 April, 2008, 7:21 AM > On 20/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an hard drive that connects to my laptop > through the USB 2.0 interface.it was bought at 2006. some > months before, it started to report error on read. I > reformatted it use the > > > > mkfs.ext3 -c /dev/sda1 > > > > But it didn't detected any badblock. > > then I copied some files to it, then read out, it > shown the error: > > > > usb 5-4.3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 5 > > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x07 > driverbyte=0x00 > > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 214814735 > > usb 5-4.3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd > and address 5 > > > > I think that's because there are some badblocks > on the disk, so I ran > > > > fsck.ext3 -c /dev/sda1 > > > > but this time it still didn't find out any > badblock. > > > > any idea about it? thanks. > > The error could also be due to faulty hardware. > > Adrian > > -- > 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? > <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally > _lost_. it responds to > ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out > where in my > apartment it is. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html