RE: I/O error on hda?

I've had similar trouble with the microdrive and have had no trouble
with the compact flash cards. I believe it has something to do with the
power consumption and the unfortunate moving parts required in the
microdrive. I've also seen the problems much worse on the 38xx series
than the 37xx which also leads me to believe it's related to the only
partially functional apm support.

If you're in a hurry, I'd suggest making sure your Familiar installation
is properly auto-mounting the microdrive when it's inserted. In the
event you get a lock up, just eject the card, hit the reset, wait for
the system to load, pop in the card, after it's done automounting,
reboot back into Intimate.

Sorry I can't help you more, but I've had tons of problems with it too.

-----Original Message-----
From: intimate-admin_at_handhelds.org [mailto:intimate-admin_at_handhelds.org]
On Behalf Of Norman Walsh
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:53 PM
To: intimate_at_handhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Intimate] I/O error on hda?

/ "Jesse Sarnovsky" <jsarnov_at_exobrain.com> was heard to say:
| After familiar is up and running, insert the microdrive. More than
| likely, it will detect the type as reiserfs and try to mount it which
| will check it's transaction log.

Yes, this gets me back to working, but what I really want is to avoid
having the thing crash again. I'll be on the road for two weeks with
no laptop, just the ipaq. It's a bit hard to run commands on the iPAQ
without a serial terminal :-/

I was hoping there was something I could run that would grovel over
the whole disk, identify bad sectors, and mark them as unusable so
this would stop happening.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw_at_nwalsh.com> | First time surrealists are often
http://nwalsh.com/            | confused by the similarities between
                              | fish and telephones.
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