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may your hard disk rest in peace |
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On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:02 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hello everbody, |
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> I was surfing the web when firefox suddenly closed and |
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> attempts at re-opening it failed with strange errors |
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> since forgotten. I decided to bail out of X and |
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> restart it; that failed with an I/O error on /dev/hdb4 |
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> where / resides. Couldn't do a shutdown; had to reset |
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> the box. Now I get a kernel panic - Cannot open root |
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> device "hdb4". |
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> Booted from install CD and ran dmesg: |
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> hdb: dma_intr: error 0x84 {DriveStatusError Bad CRC} |
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> dma_intr: status 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete |
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> error} |
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> a bunch of these ending with |
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> ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed. |
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> fdisk displays the partitions all right but attempts |
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> to mount /dev/hdb4 came up with, special device |
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> /dev/hdb4 does not exist. |
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> e2fsck: no such file, bad superblock |
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> tune2fs: couldn't find valid fs superblock |
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> Is my hard-drive toast? This is the same one you may |
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> recall I had so much trouble with a few months back. |
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> Will it be possible to fix? Or at least make readable? |
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> -mw |
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> __________________________________ |
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