DJA wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I hope not. The drive is only about 10 months old. It's a 160G
(Samsung, I think).
How do I find out which partition is the one affected by the error?
You need to see if the error is repeatable. Run the Mozilla search
again (after having backed up the drive, of course).
Will do.
How do I move everything to a new partition without breaking things? I
have a lot of unassigned space on that drive. I can set up a new
partition and run "mke2fs -c" on it several times before moving to it.
I'd just find a spare partition somewhere, or one with enough room,
and "cp -pvr <from_here> <to_there>" everything over. No need to be
fancy. If you don't have enough space, temporarily stick in a spare
drive. I usually copy via NFS to my dedicated fileserver [1]
cp will get everything and preserve links and whatnot?
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 267.276 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 507.90 BogoMIPS
Memory: 349828k/360448k available (1347k kernel code, 8060k reserved,
999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
An older system. Okay, I won't mince words, an ancient system. Still
chugging along, but seen better days.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
Ouch! Known to cause hard to trace intermittent problems.
I'll pull it. I don't have speakers plugged in anyway.
isapnp: Card '3Com 3C509B EtherLink III'
isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total
Cool! Someone I can dump all my ISA cards on. ;-)
Whatcha got? ;-)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:12.0
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:12.0
PDC20269: chipset revision 2
PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: Maxtor 90340D2, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: HDS722516VLAT80, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ca800, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Maybe the older motherboard doesn't like how the newer drive handles
DMA? Try booting with "linux nodma" then see if you can duplicate the
errors.
Actually, the Promise card does the DMA. On bootup, Promise reports
that its using "udma5" I think it is. dmesg says that hda is at 33
while hde is at 100. Perhaps this is something?
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc802 on irq 12
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 6640704 sectors (3400 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=823/128/63, UDMA(33)
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 321672960 sectors (164697 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=20023/255/63,
UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide2(33,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU701 Rev: 1.0f
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: faking semi-colon
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 14x/14x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
No complaints about the drive system.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
No problem here, just no CD in the drive.
I'm not making fun of your system, but it is relatively old. And you
say the HDD is fairly new. While it's not unheard of for a drive to
die an early death (IBM "DeathStar"), it's suspicious given the age of
the other components in the system.
I'd like to get new (-er) stuff. But until I can afford to spend a
little chunk, I'm at the mercy of hand-me-downs.
So again, I *strongly* advise you to do a thorough diagnosis on the
other parts of the box, /especially/ the RAM. But it's also possible
that the motherboard or CPU is just getting cranky in its old age.
Like I said, you really don't know if the drive errors are a symptom
of a bad drive or of something else completely.
Thanks. With your expert advice, I'm sure I'll zero in on it.
*Do* back up the drive. *Don't* assume the problem is the drive and
that by just replacing it, all will be well.
Got it.
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[1] Absolutely indispensable appliances for the home user. First, it's
the best way to share data. No need to give questionable access to
shared directories on individual users' "private" boxes. I use it as a
central repository for all downloads.
It holds group home directories for the several VPN's I am part of
(i.e. each VPN gets its own private home directory for use only by
that VPN's users).
It's the perfect box to receive backups from other boxes
(LAN-accessible DVD-RW on the server), or in cases like this. It's
usually got gads of space.
It doesn't have to be fast or fancy. Mine is a K62-350, 512 MB RAM,
240 GB Shared disk space, RH9. It just sits in a corner, running
24/7/365. compact keyboard and junk 15" monitor (seldom used).
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