Re: Useless (broken?) IDE HD
Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I know it's somehow OT, but you were the only guys I thought could
> give me some ideas...
>
> well... at home I've got a VA34324A Samsung HD (IDE, 4.3Gb) that
> decided to stop working this weekend. As I'm completely out of money for
> at least 2 months and short of backups for a big chunk of the data it
> contains, I'd like to see if there's any way to put it back to service,
> even if just for a short time. Here's what happens now that it's
> installed as 2nd master in my work PC:
>
> 1) When I turn on the computer, BIOS recognizes OK it and it passes all
> tests fine;
>
> 2) Linux boots, kernel recognizes hdc: SAMSUNG VA34324A, 4124MB w/478kB
> Cache, CHS=14896/9/63, UDMA (i.e.: fine);
>
> 3) fdisk sees all four partitions OK and warns of no problems;
>
> 4) When I try to mount any of the partitions, I get a lot of equal
> messages:
>
> hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
> }
> hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide1: reset: success
>
> The FAT32 partition mount in the end, still gives me more error messages
> but I can at least browse through it and retrieve some files) but the
> ext2 won't mount (ext2 filesystem panic, of course, because of the read
> errors).
>
> When I boot Win98 (still w/ the broken HD as 2nd master), win98's fdisk
> won't even notice there's a 2nd HD and Partition Resizer win warn of an
> error (something like ¨partition 1 out of boundaries¨) and won't
> recognize anything (not even the 1st HD)...
>
> Now, is there any chance that it's not a hardware fault? If so, how
> could I try to make it work? I'm accepting mostly every possible idea,
> no matter how risky or absurd it may seem, as the worst that could
> happen as losing the HD I can't use now!
>
> TIA,
>
> Guilherme Zahn
>
> PS: Please c/c myself on the replies, OK? Due to the heavy traffic on
> the list I had to sign it through another e-mail address, and it's been
> hard to check it lately!
It might be worth checking if your drive is readable on another PC,
incase it's something like your IDE interface on your motherboard.
Although the chances of a HD failure must be higher than a motherboard
problem. Best of luck.
--
Regards,
Paul
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