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Re: [Plug] hardware problems.
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There are utilities out there that will write 0s to your disk thereby *totally*
blowing it out...
You will have a factry fresh disk as far as data goes..
V
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > 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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