RE: Whirring hard drive fails to boot up fully
Thanks for your reply Nathan.
> From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:nnorman@midco.net]
> Sent: 05 May 2000 15:35
>
> On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Stephenson, Paul wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=722927, sector=2
> > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector 2
> > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>
> [ snip ]
>
> These messages plus the noises you describe makes me think you have a
> bad disk drive. You're probably not going to recover any data off it
> ... sorry :<
This is the unfortunate conclusion I am now reluctantly accepting :-( .
> Fortunately IBM has an excellent RMA process. I'm a bit surprised
> you're having problems with that drive as it's quite new (and very
> reliable in my experience; I own one). Perhaps you got one that was
> damaged in shipping or dropped by a "technician".
I know quite a few people who have the same drive and are very happy with
it; the reviews are favourable towards it too. It doesn't seem to have
had any problems up until a few days ago when it started to go wrong as I
described.
Oh well, time to investigate IBM's RMA process.
Cheers,
Paul
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