From: "Fatih Tümen" <fthtmn+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:58:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinYzj3dUsAjzoDuZH_aapsy7WfLpKH84GEQuFZL@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i8qm1m$qhc$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih Tümen wrote:
>
>>> 2. I accidentally ran grub-install /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda
>
> If you still actually have an 'hda' then you should start using the new
> disk drivers in the kernel "CONFIG_ATA" section rather than the older
> and deprecated "CONFIG_IDE" section.
>
I was happy with the distinction between local and external disk. But
thanks for the advice.
> That will make all of your /dev/hd* devices become /dev/sd* instead. This
> may have nothing to do with your current problem, but it's time to make the
> change in any case. (You will need to make appropriate changes in fstab.)
>
>> grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/grub (hd1)
>> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist
>
> What choices does grub show you when you type "root (hd" and then hit
> TAB? That should list all hard disks that your BIOS knows about. The
> list will change, of course, depending on whether your USB disk is plugged
> in (and working) or not. (grub always refers to 'hd' and never 'sd', which
> I'm sure you already know :)
>
Grub currently know only about hd0, hd1 was what grub called the usb disk.
> I'm not using the dreaded 'hardware' word yet, though I'm suspicious.
>
If you heard the noise coming from the drive when plugged in you be
more than suspicious I think.
> When you tested the drive on the other machine, did you use a different
> USB cable?
>
No but I will do, as soon as I find the other cable.But as I just
noted, drive makes some noise when plugged in. The noise is similar
but less worrying that the one it make first time I ran eix.
> Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If fdisk
> results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more about 'hardware' :(
>
No "Unable to read /dev/sda" is what fdisk says. I never had a disk
(hardware) failure before. Is there no way to extract data from it?
--
Fatih
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-10 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 19:24 [gentoo-user] USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2 Fatih Tümen
2010-10-09 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Fatih Tümen
2010-10-09 21:15 ` walt
2010-10-10 3:58 ` Fatih Tümen [this message]
2010-10-10 9:23 ` Stroller
2010-10-10 16:21 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 22:02 ` Stroller
2010-10-11 11:51 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-11 12:33 ` Stroller
2010-10-12 5:42 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 10:01 ` Mick
2010-10-10 16:28 ` Fatih Tümen
2010-10-10 18:49 ` walt
2010-10-11 9:51 ` James Wall
2010-10-10 22:11 ` Stroller
2010-10-12 16:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-10-15 1:13 ` Daniel da Veiga
2010-10-15 7:41 ` Alan McKinnon
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