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From: Jon Martin Solaas
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00

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Shaw Carruthers <shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 
> Recently I have been getting warnings of the following type referring to
> my 2nd IDE drive:
> 
> Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady 
>  SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
> 
> Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: error=0x04 {
> DriveStatusError }
> 
> Does this mean the drive is on its way out?
> 
> Is there an IDE surface check program for Linux?
> 

badblocks. And there was an article in Linux Journal Jan. '97
explaining how to use it with dumpe2fs and debugfs to mark bad
blocks as used/bad/allocated.

Somebody should turn that article into an howto (mini) because it
seems like most people don't have a clue when it comes to dealing with
such problems. Hor is there an howto dealing with this?

-- 
Jon Martin Solaas				
jonso@ifi.uio.no				
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonso

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From: Jon Martin Solaas <jonso@menja.ifi.uio.no>
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Date: 1997/01/31
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