Re: dangerous boot messages?

[Steve Frampton <frampton alcdsb on ca>]

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Peter Kluehs wrote:

> Partition check:
> hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { BadSector DriveStatusError }, LBAsect=0,
>                                                                sector=0
> 
> should I worry about these messages and what could I do to stop them?

I would say, yes, worry about them.  Sounds like you have a bad drive, or
a portion of your drive is bad.

The optimal solution is to get a new drive.  If you'd rather not, and
don't mind risking your data on this drive, could you perhaps move your
data off of it, and then re-initialize it with bad-block checking?

For example, suppose the drive in question is /dev/hda.  And suppose you
have 3 partitions, 1 through 3.  You could back your data up, and then
type:

/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hda1
/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hda1
/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hda1

(to rebuild the file systems on those three partitions with the ext2 file
system).

If one of those partitions is swap, you'd type:

/sbin/swapoff -a 
/sbin/mkfs.swap -c /dev/hda?
/sbin/swapon -a

(where ? is the partition number your swap area resides).

Good luck!

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