Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems
On Monday 21 February 2005 09:45, Colin wrote: > Does Linux just report the drive size differently (mebibyte vs. > megabyte?) or has this hard drive sought its last sector? Reported drive sizes may vary considerably depending on what file system you're using. >From the size of your partitions, it would appear that the disk has less than one gigabyte total. What's that -- vintage '96? While it certainly may be a educating experience to watch as an old disk arrives at its final death throes, it's usually only a waste of time. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems
Hi,
I have had very similiar errors caused by a corrupted (older) IDE
cable.
Just a tought.
Frank
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 03:45 -0500, Colin wrote:
> I was having problems untarring the portage tree from the CD, so now I'm
> running "fsck -pvcf /dev/hda3" right now, and it's giving me a million
> errors like this:
> hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=[number],
> sector=[another number]
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector [number]
>
> Partitions:
> /dev/hda1 (32 MB)Start: 1 End: 63Blocks:
> 31270+ Id: 83 (Linux, ext3)
> /dev/hda2 (96 MB)Start: 64End: 250 Blocks: 94248
> Id: 82 (Linux swap, but I forgot to turn it on ^_^U)
> /dev/hda3 (rest of disk) Start: 251 End: 1416 Blocks: 587664
> Id: 83 (Linux, ReiserFS)
> fdisk reports this drive as 730 MB, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1416
> cylinders (and spits a warning about having more than 1024 cylinders).
> DOS/Windows always reported the drive as 695 MB, though.
> Coincidentally, all of the bad sectors are near the end of the disk, so
> I'm thinking that the disk is being reported to the kernel as larger
> than it actually is, which explains why all these operations are failing.
>
> Does Linux just report the drive size differently (mebibyte vs.
> megabyte?) or has this hard drive sought its last sector?
>
> --
> Colin
>
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>
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[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems
I was having problems untarring the portage tree from the CD, so now I'm
running "fsck -pvcf /dev/hda3" right now, and it's giving me a million
errors like this:
hda: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error }
hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=[number],
sector=[another number]
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector [number]
Partitions:
/dev/hda1 (32 MB)Start: 1 End: 63Blocks:
31270+ Id: 83 (Linux, ext3)
/dev/hda2 (96 MB)Start: 64End: 250 Blocks: 94248
Id: 82 (Linux swap, but I forgot to turn it on ^_^U)
/dev/hda3 (rest of disk) Start: 251 End: 1416 Blocks: 587664
Id: 83 (Linux, ReiserFS)
fdisk reports this drive as 730 MB, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1416
cylinders (and spits a warning about having more than 1024 cylinders).
DOS/Windows always reported the drive as 695 MB, though.
Coincidentally, all of the bad sectors are near the end of the disk, so
I'm thinking that the disk is being reported to the kernel as larger
than it actually is, which explains why all these operations are failing.
Does Linux just report the drive size differently (mebibyte vs.
megabyte?) or has this hard drive sought its last sector?
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