I have a 486DX4/100 (kinda) running Debian Linux "unstable" 2.2.16 kernel..
A week or two back it started misbehaving and I asked a few of you guys about the place about what "Unknown vector XXX in CPU#0" and "hda interrupt lost" meant.. Some people said that it sounds like the hard disk is on the way out. What I want to know is, how do I test an ext2fs formatted hard disk more intensively than at just a filesystem level? The hard disk in question is a Fujitsu, 1GB or so. The IDE controller is a SiS. The motherboard is both PCI and ISA (strange as most 486s were ISA only or VLB - also - should it be edge or level detect for PCI settings??) If it is indeed the harddisk that has died, does anyone have any good-condition 1GB-8GB IDE drives? I don't think this old 486'll handle over 8GB, that and I'm not too crash hot on using some of that 'patch my bios on boot' master boot sector voodoo evil :) Any suggestions welcome Anthony
