RE: [SLE] hard drive

-----Original Message----- From: Roman Shakin [mailto:rshakin@unixfreak.org] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:41 PM To: Landy Roman Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] hard drive

fsck ( = FileSystem ChecK) is what you want. Assuming your filesystem is ext2, the actual app will be either e2fsck or fsck.ext2 (varies by distribution and version). Normally, you want to fsck only unmounted filesystems, and I don`t offhand recall how to deal with the root filesystem in this regard (other than the obvious option of booting with a rescue disk and running e2fsck from it on the now-unmounted root filesystem).

And yes, it`s probably a bad block on the hard drive.

Or it could be something else such as not nuff power suplied to the hd, but I am sure thats not the case...

--Roman

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001, Landy Roman wrote:

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yes i hear noice and i see this in my log

ug 18 12:33:36 pepino -- MARK -- Aug 18 12:53:33 pepino kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Aug 18 12:53:41 pepino kernel: ide0: reset: success <<<<< sometimes it fails and crashes

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:56:02 -0700 Roman Shakin wrote:

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Please be more specific wiht your post, how is it dying... ? Do you hear extra noises or something...

--Roman

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001, Landy Roman wrote:

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any utility to check a hard drive i think my hd is dying

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You run fsck on / in the same manner as it done if auto run during boot. The partition must be mounted or you will not be able to run fsck, But It Must be mounted as Read Only. I am not sure though that fsck is actually the utility that would serve best for the purpose of checking the fitness of your drive, especially if your drive is not linux only. There are several Windows utilities which supposedly will do this. But your best bet is your hd vendors web site. I know that IBM offers for download Disk Manager such includes a drive fittness test. It can only be used on IBM drives so check your vendors site, they may have a comparable selection. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.