[ale] hard drive won't mount

[Jim]

Interesting thought. I just converted to 2.4.18 earlier this month. I 
may try playing with another kernel. I still have an old boot disk 
around. I was able to finally mount the drive using Tom's Root/Boot. I 
then mounted my second drive along with it and copied off some critical 
files. But even in the midst of that operation, the problem drive was 
giving me errors like this:

hda: read_intr: status=0x49 {DriveReady DataRequest Error}
hda: read_intr: status=0x04 {DriveStatusError}

And I was able to run fsck most of the way. The most common error was a 
short read on a block. It finally checked all 5.9 million blocks and 
then exited with a bus error. At any rate, the hard drive isn't totally 
dead. It is doing something, however poorly.

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.
> 
> 


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