Rob Dupuis wrote:
The only thing noauto does is prevent the partition from automaigcally
being mounted at boot. If you have some sort of data recovery tool you
plan to use on the dirve, this is probably a good idea. Especially
since a corrupted drive will likely trigger a fsck, which could make
t
Rob Dupuis wrote:
Hey guys.
Many thanks for all you responses.
My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller
on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a
bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling.
I think I'm gonna disabl
the corrupted
drive?
RobD
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> Daniel B.
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Daniel B. wrote:
What IDE controller does your motherboard have? (Mine is an Asus
A7M266-D (dual-Athlon MP), with an on-board AMD768 (for which DMA
apparently doesn't work reliably yet).)
Daniel
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) (prog-if
8a [Master SecP PriP])
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> Daniel B. wrote:
> > The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt
> > the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA.
> >...
> > Daniel
>
> While DMA related corruption may be the problem in Rob's case, I believe
> most of the pro
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 14:50 GMT, Daniel B. penned:
> "Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> If you already have it booted up, I believe that tune2fs -i 0 -c 0
>> will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in
>> the future.
>
> Doesn't that just prevent checking a filesystem that
Daniel B. wrote:
The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt
the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA.
**Rob: If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have
SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately
disable DMA.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
> ...
>
> If you already have it booted up, I believe that
> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0
> will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in the future.
Doesn't that just prevent checking a filesystem that appears to be clean?
Once a filesystem is known to have erro
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote:
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> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it.
...>
> Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow
> chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:03:40PM +0100, Rob Dupuis wrote:
> Yeah, I thought that was probably the case. Is there any way I can boot the
> machine and skip fsck running automatically, try to mount the drive and
> salvage some of the data to another drive? (I should point out my system
> drive is
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:03 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned:
>
> Yeah, I thought that was probably the case. Is there any way I can
> boot the machine and skip fsck running automatically, try to mount the
> drive and salvage some of the data to another drive? (I should point
> out my system drive is fine
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> > Subject: Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
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> >
> > On Thu, 09 O
> -Original Message-
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> Subject: Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably
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> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned:
> > Hi
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned:
> Hi All.
>
> My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. When the
> machine boots fsck is run, and when it gets to some percentage (eg
> 69.9%) and then I get an msg that says 'Duplicate or bad block in
> use.' It then proceeds t
Hi All.
My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. When the machine
boots fsck is run, and when it gets to some percentage (eg 69.9%) and then I
get an msg that says 'Duplicate or bad block in use.' It then proceeds to
start a pass for duplicate and bad blocks, and it finds a *lot*
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