[svlug] fsck on HD booted from CD???

[Nick Austin]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:10:15PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hey Nick & all,
> 
> Well, I got Xubuntu to boot again and dmesg came 
> up with errors on the HD, so I tried this:

What are the errors? Do they look like this:

[4297208.612000] Buffer I/O error on device hda5, logical block 0
[4297217.875000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4297217.875000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114688099, high=6, low=14024803, sector=114688099
[4297217.875000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[4297217.875000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 114688099
[4297217.875000] Buffer I/O error on device hda5, logical block 1
[4297226.987000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[4297226.987000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114688099, high=6, low=14024803, sector=114688098

I'd bet the drive is toast. It seems that hard drive either fail in the
first 24 hours or last for years from my experience. But they are mechanical
devices that are prone to failure.

Excessive heat is one of the quickest ways to kill a hard drive, you can check
the temp of most modern drives with hddtemp.
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