i got started getting a similar message just before drive dropped dead on me. i
tested the drive using the pc's diags,
showed no issues on a 10 munute test, then it dropped dead. maybe your new drive
is faulty.
rg
"J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)" wrote:
> Yesterday I brought a new 40gig drive for one of my servers, and spent
> last night installing it, partitioning it as a 40 gig partition and
> moving 20 gigs of existing data onto it.
>
> I added it to fstab as a automount - and fsck refuses to run on it,
> complaining with then usual:
>
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
>
> complaints (I'm at home now, server is in the office, so that status may
> be wrong - it;s from memory). The drive is still mountable manually tho,
> and appears ok.
>
> I'm running 2.4.0test9 with standard potato. Does anyone know if this is
> fixable? I've just forked out all my spare cash on this drive (IBM
> Deskstar) and I'm also now down a server :(
>
> TIA!
>
> Regards,
> Ender
