Thanks for your reply Nathan. > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 May 2000 15:35 > > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 01:49:45PM +0100, Stephenson, Paul wrote: > > [ snip ] > > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, > LBAsect=722927, sector=2 > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector 2 > > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > > [ snip ] > > These messages plus the noises you describe makes me think you have a > bad disk drive. You're probably not going to recover any data off it > ... sorry :<
This is the unfortunate conclusion I am now reluctantly accepting :-( . > Fortunately IBM has an excellent RMA process. I'm a bit surprised > you're having problems with that drive as it's quite new (and very > reliable in my experience; I own one). Perhaps you got one that was > damaged in shipping or dropped by a "technician". I know quite a few people who have the same drive and are very happy with it; the reviews are favourable towards it too. It doesn't seem to have had any problems up until a few days ago when it started to go wrong as I described. Oh well, time to investigate IBM's RMA process. Cheers, Paul
