[ale] hard drive won't mount

[cfowler]

I have a 7200 RPM 60GB drive on on RH7.3 sometimes I get bad crc
errors.  These ususally come in groups.  But I have not had any luck
turning DMA off with hdparam.

Chris

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:51, keith frost wrote:
> there is a chance the drive is not the culpret.
> i can't remember if it's this list or another but i've
> been hearing a lot of "disk problems" with people
> running RH7.2.  i've not used RH in awhile but
> Mandrake went thru a period a while back where some
> drives did not work well.  they would start off with
> minor problems and go down hill from there.  this was
> what drove me to debian.
> 
> something else you might want to check is what kernel
> it is using.  the 2.4.* kernel has a history of
> trashing filesystems.  in one article they called it
> the kernel of pain.
> 
> 
> --- Jim <jcphil at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I already had some file system problems and now
> > things have gotten much 
> > worse. Whenever I try to boot up to Linux, it wants
> > to run fsck. But if 
> > I let fsck run, it won't complete but exits with a
> > "Signal 7". I can use 
> > Tom's Root/Boot disk, but it can't mount the hard
> > drive either. And of 
> > course if I try to run fsck from there, it also
> > errors out. Do I have 
> > any options left? This is a RedHat 7.2 distro.
> > 
> > 
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