bad sign

2007-04-07 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
I am getting this message at the time of updating source list. shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get update Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release Err http://ftp.no.debian.org sid

Re: bad sign

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: I am getting this message at the time of updating source list. shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get update Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release.gpg

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-08 Thread Rick Jones
What do you think is causing this: May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't that field that says LBA mean the drive is in LBA mode? Ofcourse, you can tell it's

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-08 Thread A. M. Varon
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: What do you think is causing this: May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA Keep in mind that I'm not using LBA mode. Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't that field that says LBA mean the drive is

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-08 Thread Jim Pick
Andre M. Varon wrote: Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux users. you could check out www.wdc.com.

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-08 Thread Sam Ockman
Excellent, I have a Western Digital 1.6 gb harddrive, the same one that their web page admits to having problems withGateway is sending me a new one, I only hope this one lasts until then.. (It does take some guts for WD to admit they messed up, and replace the drives.) Thanks for all

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-08 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote: Andre M. Varon wrote: Indeed, there is something really wrong. Something really is wrong with the harddisk. Few months ago there was a thread in a linux mailing list about the how unreliable some western digital harddisk are. many disgruntled linux

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-07 Thread Paul McDermott
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't give me any useful information. Reply soon. Paul Ps. read your mail. On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: Would that include the SB16 software configureable

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-07 Thread Rick Jones
I get the same error. The error is a hda error. So, yes I have a WD 1.2GB IDE on hda. What am I looking for in my mail? On Wed, 7 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-07 Thread Dima
You wrote: Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be called PNP by some. Mine is a ESS, and Intel's pnptool won't configure it either, if that's what you mean. I run its config utility from dos and then use loadlin to boot linux. In my case the problem went

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote: Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a bad, bad thing, or just somewhat bad? hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919,

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Ed Down
A couple of times my machine has been brought down by a power failure and I have got similar messages to the original poster, during the file system check after bootup failed. I have all my files on a single partition, plus swap and dos. Kernel 1.0.2? from memory, xdm doing logins. I boot from a

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Dima
You wrote: On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote: ... hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ... It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk, disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there should be a boot

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello, in order to give technical help people need more information about your computer hardware configuration, hardware setup, hardware technical specifications. Please foward me all of this information to me through the list or not I am very interested in this problem, because I have a

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be called PNP by some. I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having this error also. It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past 3 months from what I can see by my logs. At any rate it

Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Sam Ockman
Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a bad, bad thing, or just somewhat bad? hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919, sector=1280358 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358 hda:

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread SbL
umm.. that looks as if you file system is corrupted.. that usually happens when someone turned off your computer or something equally horrible.. when that happened to me, next time i rebooted my MBR thought i had like 6 disk partitions.. i didn't :) in any case, my file system was trash and i

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
I've been getting this intermittantly when running trafshow since upgrading to frozen. So I would be interested in hearing this myself. So, if you would, please Cc me with the answer. Thanks. On Sun, 4 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X Is it a

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
When I recv'd this error the first time (out of two so far) I ran e2fsck and it checked out fine. This only happens to me when using trafshow since upgrading to frozen. On Sun, 4 May 1997, SbL wrote: umm.. that looks as if you file system is corrupted.. that usually happens when someone

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Sam Ockman
Okay, I ran e2fsck with a -f option and everything works out fine. No problems... But when I run it with -c I get the same error messages I got below... Shouldn't my ide drive be able to remap the bad blocks for me automatically? What's going on? It seems like the -c option won't fix things

Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: Okay, I ran e2fsck with a -f option and everything works out fine. No problems... But when I run it with -c I get the same error messages I got below... Shouldn't my ide drive be able to remap the bad blocks for me automatically? What's going on? It

LBA??? Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)

1997-05-05 Thread Rick Jones
An additional note: When I was using LBA mode I had a lot of trouble with the file system slowly becoming unstable over time. If you're using LBA you might want to use standard mode when you replace the file system. I haven't had any problems like I was in LBA mode. I posted on this about a