Hi Philip,
I guess your HDD might have developed bad blocks...
this happnd with me also previously with my 2G Hdd...which got resolved
after i booted with a 98 bootable floppy and ran a fdisk deleted the vfat
partition n formatted the same ... i got a few bad blocks but now my that
HDD is running smooth ..
and the reason why i am writing this is eventually i also used to get this
similar type of vfat mounting errors ... while trying to mount the
partition on a linux box...
try to get hold of a win9x bootable and run scandisk on your hdd ...may be
it might detect the bad blocks n mark them properly ... u never know
microsoft ;)
Best Regards,
-Mitul Limbani
(mitul 2 mitul.com)
Philip S Tellis writes:
> I have one ext2 partition, two fat32 partitions and one fat16 partition.
>
> I can mount the ext2 and fat16 partitions, but am unable to mount the
> vfat (fat32) partitions.
>
> When I try to mount them, the hard disk makes a humming sound, and I get
> these errors:
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5221126, sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
>
> This happens everytime.
>
> I tried disabling dma and then mounting, and I get these errors:
>
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5221126, sector=1
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 1
> FAT bread failed
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
> I am unable to boot into the fat32 partitions either.
>
> I have not used Windows for several months now, so don't think that this
> is a windows related problem, and I was able to mount the partitions
> last night, but not since this afternoon.
>
> Shutdown was uneventful the last time I used the fat32 partitions. I
> have all my documentation stored on those partitions and refer to them
> frequently.
>
> Any ideas as to what has happened and how I may be able to fix it?
>
> Philip
>
>
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