disk drive errors -- controller or media?

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:49:25 PDT


When I get:
read_intr status=0x59 { DriveREady SeekComple DataRequest Error}
read_intr: error=0x01 { AddrMarkNotFound}

is this a sign the IDE interface is bad or is the disk?

I need to get whatever I can get off the disk (turns out this happens
on /, so I need to get a rescue disk going...

marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
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