/mnt/floppy is the floppy drive and /mnt/cdrom is your cdrom. If you are getting i/o erros on the hard disk like hda: i/o error sector nnnnn uncorrectable error drive ready seek complete you have a hard disk that has failed. It has probably exceeded the bad sector count that can be a utomatically be remapped by the drive. You might get things off the drive but it's a case of backing up what you n_need_ to keep and backing up more often. I have had plenty of drives fail in my time, if you have no backups you just get drunk and deal with the loss next day :-) Regards, Kerry. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 08:17:46PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hello, ok here is what is up with my drive. It will boot, but it has alot of > input output errors. Also when logging into root all it says is bash and the > bash version. No matter what you type. > When I tried running shutdown with the -h now option it says program not > found. > Also it gives me input output errors when trying to mount /mnt/floppy and > /mnt/cdrom. > Everything was working fine until my system locked up, and I was forced to > switch it off manually. After that everything has been acting weird, and it > refuses to shutt itself down properly. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
