on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:13:44PM +0200, Shaul Karl (shaulka@bezeqint.net) wrote: > > I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel.. > > > > A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys about > > the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in CPU#0" and "hda interrupt lost" > > meant.. > > > > Some people said that it sounds like the hard disk is on the way out. What I > > want to know is, how do I test an ext2fs formatted hard disk more intensively > > than at just a filesystem level? > > > > The hard disk in question is a Fujitsu, 1GB or so. > > The IDE controller is a SiS. > > The motherboard is both PCI and ISA (strange as most 486s were ISA only or > > VLB - also - should it be edge or level detect for PCI settings??) > > > > If it is indeed the harddisk that has died, does anyone have any > > good-condition 1GB-8GB IDE drives? I don't think this old 486'll handle over > > 8GB, that and I'm not too crash hot on using some of that 'patch my bios on > > boot' master boot sector voodoo evil :) > > > > Any suggestions welcome > > Anthony > e2fsck I'll have to disagree. e2fsck will tell you if there are any inconsistancies on your filesystem. It doesn't do a physical check of the drive itself, or test read/write to sectors. The proper tool for the latter is badblocks, unfortunately, the write version of this test is destructive -- it will destroy both filesystems and cntents on your disk, requiring that you back up the data on it before running it, and restore the data afterwards. This may not be a bad idea in any event on a drive beginning to show signs of failure. Many professional system administrators strongly recommend replacing hard drives at the first sign of failure. This may be overkill, but given the relative values of hardware to data contained, it probably makes a lot of sense. Other recommendations on hardware testing appreciated. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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