Problem with hard drive lock out

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Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> I'm having a vexing problem with FC8 losing connection to one of my hard 
> drives.  I've had it drop out in a matter of a few minutes.  This time 
> it was working for several days before it quit.
> 
> I have two drives on my system.  One SATA drive has the system installed 
> on it.  The other, plugged into the IDE header has data files on it.  
> The SATA drive runs fine.  The IDE drive will eventually quit working.  
> I can cd onto the drive as long as I don't try to access something that 
> is not already in the disk cache.  When I try to access the drive I get 
> this error:
> 
> [mlapier at mushroom mlapier]$ cd /sdb1
> [mlapier at mushroom sdb1]$ cd mlapier
> [mlapier at mushroom mlapier]$ cd mail
> [mlapier at mushroom mail]$ cd MYDIR
> [mlapier at mushroom MYDIR]$ ls
> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> [mlapier at mushroom piano]$ cd /sdb2
> [mlapier at mushroom sdb2]$ cd piano
> [mlapier at mushroom piano]$ ls
> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> 
> There are two partitions mounted thus:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  16 root users  4096 2007-12-29 12:56 sdb1
> drwxrwxrwx  49 root users  4096 2008-01-06 22:48 sdb2
> 
> [mlapier at mushroom etc]$ cat fstab
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/sdb1               /sdb1                   ext2    defaults        1 2
> /dev/sdb2               /sdb2                   ext2    defaults        1 2
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        
> 0 0
> 
> [mlapier at mushroom etc]$ uname -a
> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:03:13 EST 
> 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I've been running Linux for many years on many boxes but I've never 
> encountered a situation like this.  The only way I've found to restore 
> operation is a to reboot.
> 
> Anyone got any clues??
> 
Clues? Start your own thread, dude. This one has nothing to do with hard 
drives.
Just compose a new message and send to : fedora-list at redhat.com