My little box crashed yesterday. The hard disk started making
a repetitive whining, metallic noise. Here's the error message
I managed to cut+paste :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neo]# hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 3408048
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_write_inode: unable to read
inode block - inode=213140, block=426006
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 14418024
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_write_inode: unable to read
inode block - inode=899638, block=1802253
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 14418128
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_write_inode: unable to read
inode block - inode=900059, block=1802266
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 12320824
[etc]
On bootup, I had to run fsck manually. Now, I seem to have
completely lost my news spool. Here's the output of 'ls -la'
in /usr/local
[...]
?rwxr-xr-x 11 news news 4096 Aug 27 09:33 news
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 26 22:33 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 src
[...]
What does the "?" denote in a directory listing ?
The hard disk is an IBM 40GB. Not sure of the model, but it's
only about 4 months old, so I should be able to return it under
the guarantee. What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ?
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Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
