[Luna] trackzero not found

[annewittke at infomagic.net]

It would be great if you could bring your HD to my
house so we could check that out.



------- Original Message -------
>From    : Andrew Roazen[mailto:andrew.roazen at nau.edu]
Sent    : 4/20/2008 2:54:21 PM
To      : luna at lists.flaglug.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: [Luna] trackzero not found

 Anne wrote:
> I am trying to install redhat 7.2 on a computer I
> just got from NAU surplus.  It's one that didn't have
> any operating system installed, so I'm making it
> fully linux.  It has a 20 gb hard drive.  The problem
> is, when I tell it to install the software, it's
> taking forever.  Last night I let it run over 12
> hours before finally turning it off.  I'm trying
> again this morning, and this time I had the presence
> of mind to cntl-alt-F4 and look at what it is doing.
> It's getting a lot of errors.  Over and over again,
> it repeats
> driveready seekcomplete error
> drivestatuserror trackzero not found
> There are a lot of lines with 'lost interrupt', but
> every once in a while I will see a reset:success in
> there.
>
> 1) How long should it take to reformat and partition
> a 20 gig hard drive?
> 2) Are all these errors normal, or is this a sign of
> a hard drive that is so bad it should be replaced?
>
>   
Anne:
I've got at least one 20 or 40gig IDE hard drive
which ought to work on 
that box (campus surplus Dells are nearly all IDE
rather than ATA). I'd 
be happy to swap it with you and let you check. There
are a handful of 
boot utilty CDs out there which contain
manufacturer-specific utilities 
for error checking HDs.

A 20Gb HD should take about five minutes to reformat ext3
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