Daniel,
I have written a utility that can detect problems internally in the hard
drive. It can be obtained here http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/software/smart/
if you run
smartctl -e /dev/hdb
smartctl -O /dev/hdb
smartctl -c /dev/hdb
if any thresholds fail. Call Quantum and get a new disk.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Zeaiter" <daniel@academytiles.com.au>
To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 11:11 PM
Subject: Corrupt Hard Disk?
> Recently strange things have been happening to my hard disk...
>
> I'm checking my e-mail happily, and then all of a sudden I notice that
> none of my e-mails will open, at all. Then Netscape tells me it can't
> find my mail files. So I try to list the contents of my home folder, and
> KFM has a heart attack and tells me it can't find my home folder, it
> must have been deleted.
>
> Naturally, I Ctrl-Alt-F1, to go into the main console and find that
> about a million error messages are flying past, all referring to my hard
> disk. I can't even type a command or login, these error messages just
> fly past at a rate of about 10 a second.
>
> The main message is this:
>
> hdb: status error: status: 0x00 {}
> hdb: drive not ready for command
>
> This appears over and over and over and over again. And wedged in
> between this constant, repeated message are various other error
> messages. I couldn't pick them all up but here are some of them (x
> refers to a number that changes from message to message):
>
> ide0: reset: success
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector x
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext2_write_inode unable to read inode
> block -inode:x -block:x
>
> Sorry if these error messages aren't exact, it's hard to write them down
> when they're screaming past you faster than Bill Gates from the justice
> department.
>
> Anyway, I can't type in anything, can't issue a reboot command, so I
> *GASP* reboot manually. The kernel boots up fine, until it gets to the
> routine check of my hard disk, then says: "/dev/hdb1 contains a
> filesystem with errors, check forced" and begins checking my disk.
> Throughout the check I get error messages like this:
>
> duplicate bad blocks in inode x
> deleted inode x had zero dtime. FIXED.
>
> Then I get asked for the root password, get thrown mercilessly into the
> shell, and are asked to run fsck manually. I do so, idiotically press Y
> to all of the questions that are asked (which are mainly, "bla bla bla:
> fix?", I completely forgot to write these down), and then reboot
> cleanly.
>
> My system boots up smooth as a babies bottom, and everything goes on
> like nothing ever happened, only for the same thing to happen a few days
> later.
>
> Weird huh? Maybe not. I doubt anyone will rush to answer this e-mail,
> but it was worth a shot. The kernel mailing list was the one I thought
> was the most relevant. Another thing I think is worthy of mentioning is
> that as far as I can remember this only occurs when I'm connected to the
> net. I'm in a network and running IP masq for two other machines. The
> error might have occured when I'm not on the net, so don't hold this
> against me, I have a bad memory.
>
> Vital stats: Kernel 2.2.12-20, RH 6.1, Pentium III 450, 192 MB RAM,
> Quantum Fireball EX HDD, 12 GB.
>
> Thankyou guys and girls, and keep up the good work,
> Daniel.
>
> --
>
> Daniel Zeaiter
> E-Mail: daniel@academytiles.com.au
> Website: http://www.academytiles.com.au
> Phone: 0408 242 500
> ICQ: 16889511
> "Carpe Dium, Seize the Day"
>
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