William L. Jarrold wrote:
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.
You may want to go get a newer hard drive before you go much farther. Drive not ready errors at runtime, on an IDE system, are nearly always a failing drive.
You might have a loose cable, and it's possible that the motherboard IDE controller is toasty.
...(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:
I run Debian testing myself. It's a better idea.
...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.
/dev/hda is the raw drive. fsck doesn't deal with that at all. The *partitions* on the drive are /dev/hda1 through /dev/hdaX, up to /dev/hda63. /dev/hda7, as below, is a partition with an ext2 or ext3 filesystem on it. As its name implies, fsck checks filesystems.
"fdisk -l /dev/hda" will tell you what partitions you have and which are ext2 or ext3 (Linux Native).
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.
You should never run fsck on a filesystem mounted read-write. Boot to single-user mode (or just do "init 1" as root) and run fsck from there.
BTW, the "-y" option to fsck is your friend. ;)
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