bad hard drive?

hi all, i have a 40gig IDE drive on a dual800 system running debian 2.2. bios did not detect this drive correctly. however, an fdisk on the /dev/hdb could see the drive, and i made a partition /dev/hdb1 which was all 40 gig ext2. when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by

Re: bad hard drive?

Bad hard drive. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:12:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by that i mean i run fsck on the drive and there are errors. as soon as the fsck is finished i run it again and there are errors again. its now

Re: bad hard drive?

hi, Bad hard drive. badblocks shows nothing, and i have another of these 40 gig drives on a different machine that does the exact some thing. kaos:/# fsck /backup Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hdc1 contains a file system