IDE drive mauled by innd and 1.3.62...

Ryan Tucker (rtucker@crasher2.ttgcitn.com)
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:51:54 -0600 (CST)


Heya...

Last night, at about 10:03pm (3 minutes into the nightly innd expiry run),
crasher2 placidly locked up, and the hard drive light locked on.

Watching it for a few minutes, I got error messages like this:

hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset timed-out, status 0xd0
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 1278481
hda: drive not ready for command

Upon reboot, fdisk gave errors like this:

Inode 159909 (/lib/news/errlog.1.gz) has a bad mode (00).
/dev/hda4: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - RUN fsck MANUALLY

And then I got a nice, happy-looking slackwareish login prompt.

fsck /dev/hda4 (fortunately) fixed it manually, but I'm wondering what caused
it and if it'll happen again.

Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 49737 41810 5359 89% /
/dev/hda4 711251 649310 25200 96% /usr

/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda4 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)

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