Re: [TCLUG:932] Boot Problems

["Clark Whiting" <crwhiting@hotmail.com>]

Geez -- now you tell me.
I bought a 2550A Big Foot a little over a year ago and I'm having
problems with it already. The heads like to stick and I have to 
literally pick up the front of my computer and drop it an inch or
two. Anybody heard good/bad things about that 6Gig drive Computer
City is selling for $150? 


>> Bob Tanner wrote:
>> > 
>> > Quoting Chris Muller (cmuller@avsgroup.com):
>> > > I've just encountered a problem which I've never even heard of 
before.
>> > > When booting, the system goes into a forced fsck and then returns 
this
>> > > error "DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error".  Then it gives 
me the
>> > > ...run fsck manually...Control-D to boot normally... at which 
point I
>> > > put in my root password and attempt to run fsck manually.  This 
then
>> > > produces inode errors which I cannot get past.  I've never had 
anything
>> > > like this ever before and I'm completely clueless about what to 
do.
>> > > Could any of you gurus please help?
>> > >
>> > 
>> > Sounds like a bad drive crash. Or a possible bad controllor card.
>> > 
>> > What are the inode errors?
>> > 
>> > Worse comes to worse you can set fsck to use another superblock and
>> > try it from there.
>> 
>> Well, now it doesn't even get to the fsck problem.  Now it starts 
with
>> the LILO and hangs there.  This is starting to feel more and more 
like a
>> hardware problem.  Has anyone heard of RH 5.0 having problems on a
>> Compaq Deskpro 2000?  It's got a Quantum Bigfoot 2550A hard drive.
>> -- 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Muller
>> * *
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