Re: [OT?] Hard disk dying?

[Anthony McDowell <dakken@digiden.com>]

One thing to try is booting using an MS-DOS or Windows9x boot disk and then 
try running that version of FDISK on the drive.  You could also try running 
Microsoft Scandisk.  That will usually tell you about bad sectors in 
such.  Plus, since it is not a Linux program, it won't be affected by 
faults in your Linux installation.

Hope this helps.
Tony

At 03:18 PM 6/6/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> Sorry if this is offtopic, please redirect me to somewhere more
> appropriate if you can.
>
> I rebooted my woody/2.2.15 machine cleanly yesterday, but fsck found
> errors on root, and /home and /var wouldn't even fsck: the kernel
> just printed errors like:
>
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=15456326,
> sector=1760
>
> I mounted the partitions readonly on another machine, copied the data
> across, then mkfs'd on each partition and copied the data back. The
> machine *appears* to work now: fsck runs fine on them, but I'm still
> getting the occasional error like above. I've tried turning DMA off,
> but the errors are just about the same.
>
> Does this mean I have a faulty disk? How can I test if the disk is
> faulty or if it's something else?
> --
> Alisdair McDiarmid                                    alisdair@jml.net
>
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