Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # The hard disc is a 10Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache Seagate that is less than 6 months # old. I'm fairly furious that it has developed an error this quickly. It's the nature of the beast, unfortunatly :( However, often times the manufacturers are really quite

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
I found that I had a spare 1Gb partition, and using a rescue disk managed to copy accross what I could of the damaged disk. Unfortuantely, that's meant I've lost some network option files and some of the run-levels directories have vanished (/etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc6.d/ went, as did /etc/network/option

Re: AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-04 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +, Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please help someone, and quickly!! > > I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read > fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and > putting a whole load of file sy

AGH! Hard disc faults!

2001-01-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
Please help someone, and quickly!! I have found that on my root drive (which is /dev/hdb4), I have a read fault on block 131077. This is disrupting the boot sequence, and putting a whole load of file system errors on other file systems. I have run through with fsck and it reports a : Error readi