[Gllug] hard drive problems

[gllug at uncertainty.org.uk]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:38:06PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> Can't help diagnosing the problem (though dodgy cable sounds possible)
> but I can suggest your course of action.  Back up early and back up
> often!  Also, back up the superblock locations.
>

I've been backing some stuff to CD (but I have aboy 10Gb used!)

and now I've decided fo fdisk/mke2fs my windows disk I ma having trouble
copying the data accross (is dd the best tool for this ??!!)

dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/dev/hda1
dd: reading `/dev/hdb5': Input/output error
727584+0 records in
727584+0 records out

Jan 19 11:43:28 win kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #64001: rec_len is smaller than
minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Jan 19 11:43:40 win kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #64004: rec_len %% 4 != 0 -
offset=0, inode=12780362, rec_len=1026, name_len=30
Jan 19 11:43:55 win kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #64002: directory entry across
blocks - offset=0, inode=117440883, rec_len=28524, name_len=97
Jan 19 11:44:14 win kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #96623: rec_len %% 4 != 0 -
offset=0, inode=65541, rec_len=65534, name_len=252
Jan 19 11:44:19 win kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #144001: rec_len is smaller than
minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Jan 19 11:48:17 win kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jan 19 11:48:17 win kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=743717, sector=727584
Jan 19 11:48:17 win kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:45 (hdb),
sector 727584

bugger bugger bugger 

and I've just gotten everything working how I want it 
(ogle,xine,qmail,apache,mysql,sane(usb scanner),updates ..... ) 

and I've just about broken the habit of reinstalling :(

-- 

Sean

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