Re: hard drive error?

[Damian Menscher <menscher@uiuc.edu>]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Joey Tsai wrote:

> Hi, right in the middle of my dist-upgrade-ing to xfree 4.0.1 (hurray!), I'm
> getting a physical hard drive error.
> 
> My terminal says:
> 
> Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.1-1) ...
> md5sum: read error on stdin
> dpkg: error processing xfonts-100dpi (--configure):
> subprocess md5sum returned error exit status 2
> 
> the system log (at the read error, I believe) says:
> 
> Nov  3 17:05:27 corban kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Nov  3 17:05:27 corban kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=18817, sector=18754
> Nov  3 17:05:27 corban kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 18754
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions on what to do, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks!

Couple of choices:

1. Shutdown, reboot, hope to fsck successfully, then buy a new HD and
move to it asap.

2. Assuming this is a current problem, and you're stuck there right
now....  Is this an install you want to save?  Do you not care much,
though, if you trash it?  Do you not care if you trash your hard
drive?  Do you just want to save some time of a fsck and possible
reinstall?  Then pull the IDE and power cables from your drive, wait 5
secs, then plug back in.  The computer will do an IDE bus reset, and
then continue on where it left off.  Worked for me once....  YMMV

Note: I'm not responsible if suggestion 2 fries anything, including you!

Damian Menscher
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