DMA errors, crash?

Chuk Goodin chukgoodin at gmail.com
Thu May 5 17:19:29 UTC 2005


On 5/4/05, Chuk Goodin <chukgoodin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right now I have the drive in a different machine and I'm using
> Mandrake Move (because Ubuntu Live gave me "GRUB error 15" and won't
> continue). On this machine, I can mount the drive (so that I first
> rescued all my non-replicable data!), and it looks okay. Unfortunately
> with the Move CD I can't add smartmontools -- does anyone have any
> other suggestions for drive checking?

(Following up my own post)
I used e2fsck (with -c -c options) to do a thorough check of the HD
and got no errors -- is that good enough? Seems like it must have been
my IDE controller on the old mobo, so now I'll just look for a "new"
one.




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