hard drive disappeared with 8.10 upgrade

[Karl Larsen]

Dave Stevens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a box with 2 hard drives, a 400G PATA and a 250G SATA. The recent 
> upgrade to 8.10 made a new install on the 250 that works fine but made the 
> 400 disappear. Below is posted the last part of the dmesg file. I take it 
> that the drive needs a filesystem check,is that right?
>
> [  422.197183] attempt to access beyond end of device
> [  422.197203] sda2: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
> [  422.197212] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
> [  542.779742] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> [  542.779765] EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is 
> recommended
>   
    Yes you have some problems on that Hard drive and you do need to run 
e2fsck. I would start with reading the man page for e2fsck by opening a 
terminal and typing man e2fsck and then read how to use this software.

Karl



> [  542.780018] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
> [  542.780028] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> [  723.283816] attempt to access beyond end of device
> [  723.283840] sda2: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
> [  723.283849] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
> [  815.194637] attempt to access beyond end of device
> [  815.194656] sda2: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
> [  815.194664] EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>
>
> Any and all ideas welcome.
>
> Dave
>
>   


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