[clue-tech] Re: kernel drivers (linux kernel: hde: drive_cmd:

[Hex Star]

As I've mentioned before here (I think), I can't use the manufactures
diagnostics because with the drive connected to the ATA card it thinks
the drive is a cd rom drive although I have the ATA drivers loaded in
Windows and Windows sees the drive normally :-/, doing it with the
drive connected to the motherboard directly is not a option either
anymore since I'd have to install a dynamic drive overlay which uses
the MBR and lilo is currently in the MBR (multibooting suse 9.1 pro
and xp pro sp2) since the bios only supports a max of 60GB and even
the latest BIOS update (which costs $60 so I decided to buy a $50 ATA
card which can detect the whole HD itself) can only see half of the
drive, 150GB, however as I've pointed out I've done a fsck on the
drive which returned no errors, I've done a quick SMART test and a 2
hour SMART test, both of which also passed and were done on the
drive...so is there anything more I should do? Thanks guys for your
help and sorry about all the replies, I'll do my best to keep them to
a minimum. :-)

On 1/4/06, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> Hex Star wrote:
> > mm, well after the installation of linux it turns out that the IDE
> > cable connection to the ATA controller was actually half out for some
> > reason, it's now completely in...do you think this could be the cause
> > of these errors and thus they could be ignored (perhaps some minor
> > corruption occured due to that but it can be ignored)? Or do you think
> > it'd be worth trying a reinstall since this may mean there's major
> > corruption? Thanks for your reply and help! :-)
>
> I think the cable is a likely cause for your errors on both drives.  If
> it were my drive I'd do whatever seemed easy to verify the files on it
> and then not worry about it.
>
> The only time I've seen these errors is when the drive was failing.  You
> can use badblocks to help diagnose that but you'd be best off verifying
> the drive with the manufacturer's diagnostics.
>
> Although gmail may make it convenient for you to reply to yourself over
> and over you'll get better answers if your posts are convenient for your
> readers.  That means complete but concise.
>
> Dave
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