On Friday December 6 2002 07:39 am, RichardA wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to reinstall MDK 8.2, but can't format the drive. My
> previous installation used ext2, and when it repeatedly got corrupted
> I assumed I'd broken it. In the install I get as far as formatting
> the partitions I've defined, but the error comes back:
>
> 'An error occurred. Mounting partition /dev/hda1 in directory /mnt
> failed (invalid argument)'
>
> If I do a <ctrl><alt><F4>, I see many lines something like:
>
> hda: read_intr: status=0x79 {DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
> DataRequest Error}
> hda: read_intr: error=0x10 {SectorIdNotFound} LBA=nnnnnn...
> ide0: reset: success
>
> Clearly this not good, but is it a hardware problem, or can I do a
> low-level format somehow? (the drive is a Fujitsu 3 year old 20GB, so
> I fear the worst. Class action anyone?).http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/ I suspect you're SOL with a 3 yr. old drive. AFAIK, Fujitsu's high failure rate is for recent drives, ie, < one year. Doin a low level format can often cause more problems. All HDD's have some unusable areas on the platters that are mapped out at the factory. A low level format will lose this factory info. It most likely is a HDD fixin to fail, so get what you just have to have off of it while/if you can. Then go to the link above and d/l Fujitsu's diagnostic. There's one for IDE and for scuzzy. You'll need to add either to a DOS boot disk to use 'em. If you don't have one, try bootdisk.com (or I've got a dos6boot.tgz (260k) that already has some sys diagnostic tools on it. I could email it you. Contact me offlist). If you've got the floppy that came with the drive, the utilities are most likely on it. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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