Hi. I used to have this old laptop that went through hell, and time after time I revived it (it got ran over by a car, stolen, etc), finally it started locking up on me after about 5-10 minutes of use and this occured at the same time my other desktop was dying, and I got angry and punched it a couple times.
Needless to say it didn't help the situation (it made me feel better though). After that the box was completely dead (hard drive just clicks and lilo gives a L 02 02 02 etc message on boot ). Skip ahead about 4 years and now I have decided its time to try and recover the data on the disk. I popped the disk into another computer here and stuck in a live cd and hoped that i could get booted and perhaps try to dd the disk, however on boot it gets stuck with a persistant 'hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 ( busy )' Now, I realize this is no of you all's fault, as the OS is doing exactly what it should be; however I was wondering if there was a way for me to get passed this and still boot up and then try from there (although its probably hopeless). With that said, does anyone have any ideas on how to get past this? Any suggestions are welcomed. thanks, jnf -- There are only two choices in life. You either conform the truth to your desire, or you conform your desire to the truth. Which choice are you making? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
