Re: ide-floppy errors

Paul Flinders (paul@dawa.demon.co.uk)
30 Mar 1999 20:41:12 +0100


Junichi Saito <j.saito@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> While accessing a ide-floppy disk (LS120), I got the following error
> messages:
>
> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 3, asc = 11, ascq = 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 176058
> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 3, asc = 11, ascq = 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 176054
> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 3, asc = 11, ascq = 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 176056
> ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 3, asc = 11, ascq = 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:41 (hdd), sector 176058
>
>
> I don't seem to be able to access certain files any more. So my questions
> are:
>
> - What can trigger these messages ?
> - What is exactly wrong with the disk (or drive, or whatsoever) ?
> - Is there any way to retain those inaccessible files ?
>
> The kernel is 2.2.3 with ide-floppy compiled as module.

Command 28 is read and key = 3, asc = 11 means unrecovered read error
- I'd guess that the disk is duff

I'd copy all of the files you can off the disk and junk it. If you're
getting this on more than one disk I'd suspect the drive as being
faulty.

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