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Re: [Plug] hardware problems.
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> After being rebooted so
> many times without the drive being unmounted, I ran an fsck which started
> creeping above 1 hour (on a 1 gig drive!) so I decided to just take it out
> of its misery, and reformat, reinstall Redhat.
If you still have the drive, try repartitioning. Delete the old partitions,
and create "new" ones. OTOH, if you don't want to mess with it, you could
always give the drive to me. :)
> I couldn't even format the
> poor thing, it kept giving errors, so I just took it out, and installed a
> clean version of 6.1. The box has been up since then, but today the other
> drive, /home, which I didn't format, kept from the old install of 6.0,
> started spewing out these goofy errors too! So then I did a shutdown, did
> a warm boot, got a Hard disk failure from the bios! Did a cold boot, it
> seemed to be ok, but I noticed the drive wasn't cleanly unmounted, and
> redhat ran fsck by itself, and it seems to be acting normal now.
> What could be the cause of this? This drive is 10 gigs, and I'm not about
> to through it away as if it was 1 gig.
Try powering down, taking off the cover, and making sure that all the cables
are firmly in place. If they seem to be, try unplugging them and
replugging. If your drive controller is a separate card, not integrated
into the motherboard, remove it and reseat it.
Did you add any software recently? Has the computer been moved? Or did the
problem "just start" happening?
Bill
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