The fan on my power supply recently siezed up, I have since replaced
it, but it was not working for 2 days without me noticing. This
allowed my box to get HOT, and as a result my hard drive isn't too
happy anymore... In my MS-DOS partition (have to use Visual Cafe for
work) scandisk found several bad sectors, and has since corrected
them (marked bad). I know there are bad sectors in my Linux partition,
as when I try to use man for anything I get:
Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...
gzip: /usr/man/man1/dumpkeys.1.gz: Input/output error
and the corresponding messages in /var/log/messages are:
Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12253958, sector=3900158
Sep 21 18:39:00 LazC0M kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03,
sector 3900158
I plan on scrapping this hard drive as it's progressively getting
worse, but don't have the money for a new hard drive just yet.
Is there any way to mark these sectors as 'bad' and limp it along
further?
.adam
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Adam Lazur - Computer Engineering Undergrad - Lehigh University
icq# 3354423 - http://www.lehigh.edu/~ajl4
"After all, how do you give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt when
you know that if you throw it into a room with truth, you'd risk a
matter/anti-matter explosion."
-from N. Petreley's column, "Down to the Wire", 9/96 issue of
Inforworld
