Re: Bad IDE harddrives and Linux

Steffen Ullrich (ccrlphr@xensei.com)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:05:09 +0200

On my old machine (which is very messy inside) I've got this message a couple of
times. The solution was to fix the hard drive and the cables again. Something
loosened up there and caused the problem. After putting everything back in the
right place it worked again - except that the partition was messed up because
fsck tried to automatically repair it and did a bad job in this (although the
manual claims that fsck -a is mapped to e2fsck -p which should be safe according
to the manual)

> Subject: Bad IDE harddrives and Linux
>
> Okay - so I've got a bad harddrive.
> Kernel messages I get when reading/writing/fsck include:
>
> Sep 18 10:45:23 sigil kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Sep 18 10:45:23 sigil kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1901905, sector=1901842
> Sep 18 10:45:23 sigil kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01, sector 1901842
> ...
> Sep 18 10:46:14 sigil kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Sep 18 10:46:14 sigil kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=2002480, sector=2002417
> ...
> Sep 18 10:46:18 sigil kernel: ide1: reset: success
> ...
>
> ("..." indicates there's LOTS more messages)
>