On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It
> could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and
> boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size.
Try running cfdisk with the -z o
Thank you, Neil:
Neither of these worked:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a
new partition, i
Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Thank you, Neil:
>
> Neither of these worked:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>
> gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. W
Hi,
These type of messages:
[17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
[17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0
[17180157.02] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17180157.02] end_request: I/
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:22:02 +, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Neither of these worked:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>
> gparted shows the whole disk
It's looking really bad. However, I have seen some messages about similar
messages/problems being addressed by flashing the bios. I have received a
diagnostic utility from Gateway. This is a laptop.
Thank you for the advice. I'll keep trying.
Merry Christmas (in an hour, here in the W. Pacif
On Sunday 24 December 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These type of messages:
>
> [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> Error }
> [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0
> [17180157.02] ide:
nal Message-
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> write to disk, etc.
>
>
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 08:42, PaulN
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From: Alan E. Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 January 2007 11:50
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to
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> I am still in limbo about this drive. I have gotten a disk scann
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