Hi,
My computer has twice spontaneously gone into this mode where it
says things like...
hda status error drive not ready
ideo: reset: success
end-repquest: i/o error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 2424
...thee above is very rough. It flew by in an infinite loop fashion
to fast for me to be sure I wrote it correctly.
Other important facts:
ancient machine (purchased from goodwill approx 1999).
200 mhz
65 mg ram
3.2 gig hard drive
oh, i should add that typing...
debian:~# uname -a
...returns...
Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i586 unknown
...(btw a friend says i should upgrade to debian testing. the stable
version i use is too conservative and the testing version works well)
...i did a search on google groups (and stragely my browser is working
exceedingly more slowly than usual) and it suggested running fsck. So
as super user I did some mucking about like this:
debian:/home/bill# fsck /dev/hda
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
...hrm....sounds like greek to me but you'd think it would recognize hda.
ls /dev/hda* returns methinks 21 items from hda to hda1, hda2, ...hda20.
well, the above output seems strange in comparision with this...
debian:/dev# fsck /dev/hda7
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
/dev/hda7 is mounted.
WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.
Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no
check aborted.
...but from here on i am shooting in the dark.
bill
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