[ltp] Sick Hard drive?

[David]

Try this boot cd

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

there are lots of tools to test the hardware.

greetz

david


Dan Borello <dborello@uiuc.edu> schrieb (Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:17:00 -0500):

> Today on my T40 with Gentoo on it I decided to emerge sync (for those of
> you who don't know, it updates the package lists similar to apt-get
> update).  About half way through I saw some permission denied errors
> which I had never seen before.
> 
> Investigating the syslog I saw alot of errors (buttom of email).  
> 
> When gentoo was trying to update the computer would become very
> unresponsive and sometimes hang for 20 seconds at a time while the HD
> light was solid.    
> 
> I ran fsck on my /home partition (ext3) and it came up clean.  I
> attempted to run fsck (for reiser) on my root partition and I was unable
> to due to it being mounted read/write.  I booted into Knoppix and ran
> fsck on my / partition.  It ran for a while, then halted and gave a long
> error message about bad blocks that the hd couldn't hide.  It suggested
> a new hard drive as where there is one bad block there are many.  
> 
> Do you think that the HD is about to die?  It is running fine right
> now.  I would really love to not have to replace the hard drive.  If the
> drive is going bad, would I be able to prove this to IBM, seeing as I
> don't have windows on that partition.  
> 
> Any insight is appreciated.
> 
> dan
> 
> 
> syslog:
> 
> vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to
> find stat data of [31968 31969 0x0 SD]
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=24924825,
> sector=24924824
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 24924824
> vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to
> find stat data of [1292553 1299615 0x0 SD]
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=24912589,
> sector=24912584
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 24912584
> vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to
> find stat data of [31555 1292977 0x0 SD]
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Borello <dborello@uiuc.edu>
> 	
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