On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 02:27, Norm Hanson wrote: > some more info... > the drive is connected to a maxtor ata 100 pci card > here is the /var/log/ from went things went wrong... > > Nov 26 04:02:25 pro180 kernel: hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Nov 26 04:02:36 pro180 kernel: hdf: dma_intr: error=0x00 { } > Nov 26 04:02:36 pro180 kernel: hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Nov 26 04:02:36 pro180 kernel: hdf: dma_intr: error=0x80 { BadSector }, LBAsect=77019210, sector=3600 > Nov 26 04:02:36 pro180 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:43 (hdf), sector 3600 Yes, things _have_ gone wrong --- the disk is dying. Ted posted a message not long ago about how to start recovering from major disk death, and I've put up a copy at http://people.redhat.com/sct/notes/recovery.txt to get you started. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users