[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2005-02-21 Thread Colin
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 },

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2005-02-21 Thread Frank Schafer
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2005-02-21 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
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