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SubjectRe: Maxtor 40 gig troubles
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 04:52:36PM +0100, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:

> In short: i can mount all my partitions exept the last one, and i'm wandering
> if i had some kind of a diskcrash, because yesterday everything was fine.
> It could be that it's a bug in the IDE driver also, so i post it here.
>
> Just bought my new Maxtor yesterday. I had to flash my bios, and upgrade to
> kernel 2.2.14. Everything fine. The disk worked also perfect, all of it.
>
> To day i had to reset after a memory-halt (bad apacer memory).
> Now my disk gives errors. I did some test to give more information. First i
> thought my partitiontable was broken, but now i suspect a diskcrash:
>
> _e2fsck_:
> root@Viking:/root$ e2fsck /dev/hdb17
> e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:51 (hdb), sector 2
>
> Then i wanted to read the first sector of /dev/hdb17 to see if i could repair
> it, but i couldn't read it. Then i teste from where on i couldn't read it
> anymore:
>
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055247 bs=512 count=1
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055248 bs=512 count=1
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux Viking 2.2.14 #1 SMP Thu Mar 2 08:14:39 CET 2000 i686 unknown
>
> Any information if this could be a hardware problem would be nice.

Funny - the first problem occurs almost precisely at the 65536*16*63
boundary (namely, at sector 65531*16*63).
You did not run this Maxtor utility that clips the disk?

What are the kernel boot messages? ("dmesg | grep hdb")
What does hdparm -i /dev/hdb say?

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