Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 5/10/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system.
I told mozilla to do a search of my email messages and it seemed to
freeze and the entire system was *very* sluggish. After trying several
things, I finally did [Ctrl][L-Alt][1] where I saw a login prompt. But
before I even had a chance to begin to log in, I started getting an
error message that kept repeating about once per second. [L-Alt][2]
showed the same thing as did 3 and 4 (where I gave up). I had managed
to get the detailed system monitor running in the GUI, so I switched
back over to that and killed mozilla.
by "detailed system monitor" you mean /usr/bin/top, I presume
Responsiveness returned and the error message was no longer repeating. Here's the error (assuming that I copied it correctly since I could not figure out how to cut and paste from console 1 to the GUI):
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22206449, high=1, low=5429333, sector=84880 end_request: I/O error, dev 21:06 (hde), sector 84880
Does this suggest that there is something wrong with my HDD? Should I
just disable dma (or just cripple it)?
Suggests to me that you have a bad (uncorrectable) error in at least
one sector on your HDD. Back up anything valuable (not replaceable by
reinstalling the system) to some other place not on that drive. Consider replacing the drive. As a stopgap, you could try "mke2fs -c"
which will wipe out everything but also check for bad blocks. But
consider that the drive is on its way out.
carl
If this option is specified twice, then a slower, destructive,
read-write test is used instead of a fast read-only test.
How is the option "specified twice"? "-c -c"? or "-cc"? or something else? (I'm assuming that it is this to which you were referring.)
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