Hi everyone, (please cc) since a few month I have a new Sony laptop and yesterday shutting down didn't work out, but due to a graphics bug (which I reported already several times) I couldn't see anything going on (console garbled). After some time the laptop still flashed madly (which it usually does for some time before turning off) I decided that something has gone mad, no idea what. I used Sysrc-s u o and went to bed. THis morning grub didn't boot. Booting from an usb stick did give error messages, bummer. INterestingly the second partition with ntfs I could mount from my rescue stick (riplinux), but the third=linux did not work. Here are the error messages from dmesg: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TOSHIBA MK3252GS LV01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ862AS 1.21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 scsi8 : pata_legacy ata7: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14 scsi9 : pata_legacy ata8: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 irq 15 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10 sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 15794176 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 15794176 512-byte hardware sectors (8087 MB) sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:08:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:00:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:08:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:00:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:08:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 ata1.00: cmd 60/40:00:28:3d:95/00:00:0a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 32768 in res 41/40:40:38:3d:95/91:00:0a:00:00/6a Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 0a 95 3d 38 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 177552696 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 12 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 13 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 14 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 15 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 16 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 17 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 18 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 19 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 20 Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 21 ata1: EH complete sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 625142448 512-byte hardware sectors (320073 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA I tried fsck, no chance, nothing did work. Is there any way to get at the stuff on the disk? Is the disk hosed? Is the controller hosed? Is something else hosed? Thanks a lot for any suggestion, I am a bit destroyed... Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining@xxxxxxxxxx> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRADWORTHY One who is skilled in the art of naming loaves. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html