Re: [SLE] hard disk failure or???? URGENT

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 10/08/03

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    The 03.10.05 at 12:15, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

    > Rewrote my fstab and rebooted. Same information as before
    > showed up and looking at the fstab it was reduced to the
    > former three lines.

    Er... impossible.

    Are you editing your HD fstab, or trying to edit the rescue system fstab?
    If you edit the later, your system is not modified...

    > Would hate to do a new install but cannot find what is
    > further missing. I have the boot.log on which I see that
    > before entering into runlevel 3 everything is fine,
    > After that there is a lot of
    > info which I could not decifer. It is in the attachment.

    The file has line wrapping, perhaps done by your editor, so it is very
    difficult to read - I had to go over it several times to see things.

    I see you have problems with your hdb HD.

    <6> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    <6> ide1: BM-DMA at0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
    <4>hda: ST34313A, ATA DISK drive
    <4>hdb: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
    ...
    <4>hdc: ASUS CRW-5224A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
    <4>hdd: Seagate Technology 1275MB - ST31276A, ATA DISK drive
    ...
    <4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
    <4>hda: host protected area => 1
    <6>hda: 8452080 sectors (4327 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=526/255/63, UDMA(33)
    <4>hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
    <4>hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    <4>hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
    <6>hdb: 8404830 sectors (4303 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=523/255/63, UDMA(33)

    The kernel has problems talking to your second hard disk. It is set to
    UDMA at 33 Mhz, slow for modern times - but your systems is PII, so it
    could be normal. 4 Gb, is that correct?

    <4>hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
    <4>hdd: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    <4>hdd: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
    <6>hdd: 2502308 sectors (1281 MB), CHS=2482/16/63, DMA

    and also to your fourth device.

    <6>Partition check:
    <6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
    <6> hdb: hdb1
    <6> hdd: hdd1

    Mmmm... both devices (b and d) have only one partition detected. Is that
    correct?

    <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
    <6>Freeing initrd memory: 4973k freed
    <4>VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).

    Your initial ramdisk is minix. Funny.

    <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

    Did you check your cables? Did you reseat them? Perhaps even replace one
    of them, to see what happens. Perhaps you could try to disable DMA for
    those two disks.

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    Cheers,
           Carlos Robinson
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