From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P4n4m-0000QM-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:59:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D12EE0822; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AECE0822 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so445196iwn.40 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:58:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CdQ/lt8GqS5hLluUTPYiC4xOrw/KOzJsXZcBKa7AcBk=; b=Gjp4sEGxx2XzdufL/obvCYi+q7K+AjW9OkVkp8Db+Cmbwe7jy7t3X6R15+MCoalSCo xbua3+Fea2funoEqLI0d/bcc3AjL16wMYCFNqPihAnquWzUD6AQ7HDwEpGyxv+gKpBi8 0b8TM9MFFz4OrMqS5J34NGbzwiLBcQipMJp2o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=XkhaUysifsHAwqBDretgJIIjwbWYRx2/BPoqqnsY2+CgXi8bFR5BoGIZHFZ80H7rsE a/Xrix9qKwQVdBjCImVCQKpKgwSQ1RlNStV4BMDGJvPvVrE2t9+CS05Cw5kmKA0ZU1Wx 4edWwlCXROpvS0FsUMeCw8ZLjIy1p10fkH7Ns= Received: by 10.231.35.138 with SMTP id p10mr3697418ibd.33.1286683114429; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: fthtmn@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.19.71 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:58:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fatih_T=FCmen?= Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:58:04 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: qG6doCrNZipekwXpY3tKDy_XqYY Message-ID: 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6d7269de-46e9-41b7-8d9f-7bc966f48eaf X-Archives-Hash: 07ef05ef012a050468d145934b48d84b On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt wrote: > On 10/09/2010 12:36 PM, Fatih T=FCmen 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. =A0T= his > may have nothing to do with your current problem, but it's time to make t= he > change in any case. =A0(You will need to make appropriate changes in fsta= b.) > >> grub> =A0setup =A0--stage2=3D/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=3D/grub (hd1) >> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > What choices does grub show you when you type "root (hd" and then hit > TAB? =A0That should list all hard disks that your BIOS knows about. =A0Th= e > list will change, of course, depending on whether your USB disk is plugge= d > in (and working) or not. =A0(grub always refers to 'hd' and never 'sd', w= hich > 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 fdi= sk > 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