Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > >

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > ?(if so how) > > > > First, ensure you have good recent backups. > > > > Then

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > ?(if so how) > > First, ensure you have good recent backups. > > Then install smartmontools and run a long S.M.A.R.T. test and check the > results. >

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, > stat=0x440 > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct > 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: CPB resp_fl

hard drive problems

2008-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been getting alot of these May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440 May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: CPB resp_flags 0x11: , CMD error May 5 23:31

Re: USB Hard Drive problems

2007-08-29 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:40:17 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/28/07 22:15, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently purchased a factory recertified Fantom Drives 120 GB USB > > drive. I have just begun to use it, and I'm e

Re: USB Hard Drive problems

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/28/07 22:15, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I recently purchased a factory recertified Fantom Drives 120 GB USB > drive. I have just begun to use it, and I'm experiencing major > headaches. Every now and then (I don't see a triggering condition or >

USB Hard Drive problems

2007-08-28 Thread Celejar
Hi, I recently purchased a factory recertified Fantom Drives 120 GB USB drive. I have just begun to use it, and I'm experiencing major headaches. Every now and then (I don't see a triggering condition or chronological pattern, but I see the problem several times a day) the drive goes offline. S

Re: Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:42:43 -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running > great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrec

Re: Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running > great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error

Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Brad Cramer
I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=97055, sector=96984 hdc is primary master

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > > hey folks, > > > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > > > > my 3-year-old turned off the drive u

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > > my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I > wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned

diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > but > unlike GNU/Linux support, Fujitsu Support doesn't function on Sundays. > It's wait and see... Amazing, isn't it? So much for superior commercial support. (Yeah yeah, I know it's not fair to compare hardware support to OS

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> it is a good idea to visit the manufacturers' site. download an utility > and test the drive for errors. seagate and western digital have pretty > good utilities that run off a floppy after you boot using a dos bootdisk. Thanks for all the replies, I've downloaded a drive testing program from Fu

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
er Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration? > I am getting the same kind of errors shown below from your email (see mail > with subject "deselect and hda: irq timeout" 10-9 ... 10-10). &g

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:09:11PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > This isn't exactly Debian specific, but maybe someone here knows what > the problem is ... ? > > I have an old P120 laptop with a 1Gig drive. This drive is acting up > quite a lot lately. At the bottom of the email i

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
ED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 10:09 AM Subject: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, This isn't exactly Debian specific, but maybe someone here knows what the problem is ... ? I have an old P120 laptop with a 1Gig drive. This drive is acting up quite a lot lately. At the bottom of the email is an example of the log messages. I am wondering if it may be LBA related... the

Added a hard drive - Problems now

2000-10-16 Thread Joel Dinel
I added a second hard drive to my system. hda : HD #1 hdb : CDROM hdc : CDRW hdd : HD #2 This is what I get when I boot Linux : ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

Re: Large Hard Drive Problems, HELP!

2000-03-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
hi Brian > I know there is/was a problem with large hard drives. I am using the > Asus P5A motherboard, with its on board IDE controllers. I have each > drive as master on the two controllers. I had similar problems with the very same mb. For some reason the way this BIOS tells the size of the dr

Large Hard Drive Problems, HELP!

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Lavender
I built a system in which I put two 20 Gig Maxtor Hard Drives. When I do # cfdisk /dev/hda I can see the full 20 Gigs on the first drive, but when I do # cfdisk /dev/hdc I only see 8 Gigs. I know there is/was a problem with large hard drives. I am using the Asus P5A motherboard, with its on b