-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:38, Guolin Cheng wrote: > Suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > root 139% od -x good_hda2_sectors | head -5 > 0000000 58eb 4d90 5753 4e49 2e34 0031 1002 0020 > 0000020 0002 0000 f800 0000 003f 00f0 b130 0000 > 0000040 0100 012b 2557 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 > 0000060 0001 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > > root 140% od -x failed_hda2_sectors | head -5 > 0000000 58eb 4890 5253 4a49 2a34 0031 2002 0020 > 0000020 0002 0000 f800 0000 003f 00f0 b030 0000 > 0000040 7850 0253 2033 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 > 0000060 0001 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000100 0080 0a29 620f 4807 4a50 504f 4245 4a4f It seems that for each LSB/MSB 16-bit pair, b0 and b2 are forced to zero.... if I had touched this drive recently, I would carefully examine the IDE cable and the connectors on the motherboard and HDD that take the cable, looking for problems with seating of the ribbon cable on the IDC socket and bent pins on the headers. Also examine the soldering on the surface-mount IDC connector on the drive to see if any pins are loose. Is the drive running UDMA mode? That has a CRC and should refuse to fail like this.... - -Andy - -- Find your answer without waiting for replies.... Searchable list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdPN8jKeDCxMJCTIRAhsXAJ9HluHOGz+jzA5lzTA3n6wQUrcgWgCeJC3z m7EWTJLivuQJZQXRX09h8WI= =Se5R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
