Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Leo Spalteholz wrote: On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Are you using DMA? ... I didn't do anything outside of a normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: > Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > >... > > > Are you using DMA? > > > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. > > The Linux kernel and some

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > >... > > Are you using DMA? > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The Linux kernel and some IDE controllers don't work together, and can cause several f

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:12:33PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? > >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? > > who knows maybe it's software er

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Do you have IDE disks? Yes. > > Are you using DMA? It's a Western Digital 80G HD. The WD website at http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=5&Lang=1 says, among other things: Interface: Ultra ATA/100 Mode 5 Ultra ATA100.0 MB/s

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
Levi Waldron wrote: > > ... Do you > think there could be a problem with the bios or memory now that is now > scrambling a previously good hdd through the fsck process? Do you have IDE disks? Are you using DMA? If so, what kind of motherboard and/or IDE controller cards are you using? Danie

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 13, 2003 11:42 am, George Georgalis wrote: > anyway, you can use the -y option in fsck to answer yes to all the > questions. I thank both of you for the tips. We're still not sure what caused the catastrophic hard drive failure, although it may become more clear after figuring out w

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:20:40PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya > >On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: >> >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? >> >It's almost brand new, but is it

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, George Georgalis wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? > >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? > > who knows maybe it's software error, but mor

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: >Do you know what's wrong with this hard drive, or how to troubleshoot it? >It's almost brand new, but is it a warranty item? who knows maybe it's software error, but more likely a loss of power while running/writting, but much much m

fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-11 Thread Levi Waldron
I helped someone install Debian on a new hard drive a couple months ago. They didn't use that hard drive for the last couple months, then tried to boot into Debian and got the following errors during the boot process: -- mount: mountpoint /proc