From: eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ron Daisy) Subject: A strange hard drive problem Date: 29 Mar 1993 13:25:27 GMT
I have a problem with my hard disk. There are two symptoms to
the problem:
1) When I try to create an extended file system, the hard drive
behave in a strange way. First I heard that the hard disk stop
spinning and after that continue while on the screen I get the
following messages:
HD: read_intr status 0x59
HD: read_intr status 0x10
HD controller reset
HD controller times out status 0x00
HD controller still busy
HD controller reset
.
.
.
and the tree last messages appear repeatedly. Off course the
computer is stuck.
2) However I succeeded to create a Linux/Minix file system but I
had to create two parts. My partition table is:
Device Boot Begin start End Blocks Id & System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 121 10276+ 1 DOS 12-bit FAT
/dev/hda2 122 122 880 64515 81 Linux/Minix
/dev/hda3 881 881 1023 12155 81 Linux/Minix
When I try to use programs (TeX) which located at /dev/hda3
the computer stuck and the same behavior and messages appear
on the screen.
My hard drive is: Western Digital 85Mb.
Any comment?
Thanx!