DataRequest Error
 

Hello everybuddy
I have a MSI 875p Neo and bought a Maxtor 120 GB SATA disc. Then I booted knoppix 3.3, mounted the disc, placed an ext3 fs on the disc and all my data. I used the disc few times but a few days later I suddenly couldn't mount the partition anymore. It kept telling me about a corrput superblock.

so I did: "mke2fs -n /dev/hde1"
It told me where the backups of the superblock are.

Then I tried: "mount -o sb=32768,ro -t ext3 /dev/hde1 hde1".
Linux answered the following:

"hde: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hde: read_intr: error=0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBAsect=65, sector=2
end_request: I/Oerror, dev 21:01(hde),sector2
EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: wrong filesystemtype," etc etc ... the rest is just the normal mount-error-message.

I tried to use "-t ext 2" instead of "-t ext3" but it didn't change the result.
Also PartitionsMagic 8 says "bad disc".

Please please help me - the data is pretty important and [shame on me] there is no backup!

Thanks for your help!
JulesVerne

I suggest that you try to clean up the file system with fsck.ext3. You probably will have to run fsck.ext3 from a rescue CD.

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I tried - but it ended up throwing error messeges at me .. too much to write them down or even read them and I couldn't stop him from doing so (crt+c didn't work - I had to reboot the computer to stop it).
First it said that the journal had to be deletet in inode 8, I said yes. Then it said something about another inode error, I said yes again. After that there were those endless errormessages (which seemed to be the same, that came when I tried to mount it (in single user mode)). The only thing that was long enough displayed to be readable was something like "interrupt 10 error, resetting drive". That message came pretty often.
I am very well confused now... :-(

You may have a bad spot on the disk surface. Schatoor had a problem like that. He eventually solved the problem but not before he had erased all of his data. He posted the solution to the problem at the end of his thread in case anybody else needed the answer.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=129259

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