harddisk destroyed during installation

With properly functioning hardware, it should be quite impossible for software to physically damage anything. It's possible it's just a driver bug. Do you still get those errors from the LiveCD? What OS is on your primary hard drive?

Can you provide lspci, lsmod and a fresh (from bootup) dmesg as attachments?

hi david,

my primary os is kubuntu feisty.
but it doesn't matter what os/livecd i try to boot, when my slave is
plugged in, it will either hang (this happened with an old gentoo
install cd i have here) or boot very slowly (taking between 5 an 10
minutes) showing messages like "Buffer I/O error on device hdb1,
logical block 19" (this happens when i boot feisty).

i have attached dmesg, lsmod and lspci, i got these from my feisty,
not from the livecd.
please let me know if i can do more to help.

greets
job

2007/9/14, David Tomaschik <email address hidden>:
> With properly functioning hardware, it should be quite impossible for
> software to physically damage anything. It's possible it's just a
> driver bug. Do you still get those errors from the LiveCD? What OS is
> on your primary hard drive?
>
> Can you provide lspci, lsmod and a fresh (from bootup) dmesg as
> attachments?
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => David Tomaschik
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> harddisk destroyed during installation
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139455
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Module Size Used by
radeon 124576 2
drm 81812 3 radeon
binfmt_misc 13064 1
rfcomm 41752 6
l2cap 26112 5 rfcomm
ppdev 10116 0
speedstep_lib 6148 0
cpufreq_powersave 2688 0
cpufreq_conservative 8200 0
cpufreq_stats 7488 0
cpufreq_ondemand 9356 0
cpufreq_userspace 5408 0
freq_table 5792 2 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
pcc_acpi 13184 0
tc1100_wmi 8068 0
sony_acpi 6284 0
dev_acpi 12164 0
button 8720 0
container 5248 0
asus_acpi 17308 0
backlight 6784 1 asus_acpi
dock 10424 0
ac 6020 0
sbs 15528 0
i2c_ec 6016 1 sbs
video 16260 0
battery 10756 0
ipt_LOG 7680 4
iptable_mangle 3712 0
iptable_filter 3968 1
iptable_nat 8580 0
ip_tables 13924 3 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,iptable_nat
nf_nat 20012 1 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 19596 2 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack 63624 3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
nfnetlink 7576 3 nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4,nf_conntrack
x_tables 17028 3 ipt_LOG,iptable_nat,ip_tables
ipv6 274080 20
w83627hf 26256 0
hwmon_vid 4224 1 w83627hf
i2c_isa 6272 1 w83627hf
eeprom 8336 0
sbp2 24324 0
lp 12548 0
fuse 46996 1
snd_cmipci 36896 3
gameport 17160 1 snd_cmipci
snd_pcm_oss 45056 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 80260 3 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10888 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib...

i just tried to repartition my disk. if i just delete all the
partitions, fdisk finishes without errors. if i make new partitions,
fdisk gives this warning: WARNING: Re-reading the partition table
failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
i also noticed that the number of cylinders is way to high for this
size of disk. the output of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 19842 10000336+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 19843 23811 2000376 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb3 23812 238216 108060120 83 Linux

while my 250gb disk only has 30401 cylinders.

greets
job

2007/9/14, Job Noorman <email address hidden>:
> hi david,
>
> my primary os is kubuntu feisty.
> but it doesn't matter what os/livecd i try to boot, when my slave is
> plugged in, it will either hang (this happened with an old gentoo
> install cd i have here) or boot very slowly (taking between 5 an 10
> minutes) showing messages like "Buffer I/O error on device hdb1,
> logical block 19" (this happens when i boot feisty).
>
> i have attached dmesg, lsmod and lspci, i got these from my feisty,
> not from the livecd.
> please let me know if i can do more to help.
>
> greets
> job
>
> 2007/9/14, David Tomaschik <email address hidden>:
> > With properly functioning hardware, it should be quite impossible for
> > software to physically damage anything. It's possible it's just a
> > driver bug. Do you still get those errors from the LiveCD? What OS is
> > on your primary hard drive?
> >
> > Can you provide lspci, lsmod and a fresh (from bootup) dmesg as
> > attachments?
> >
> > ** Changed in: ubuntu
> > Assignee: (unassigned) => David Tomaschik
> > Status: New => Incomplete
> >
> > --
> > harddisk destroyed during installation
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139455
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
>

I had something similar once. The DriveReady SeekComplete Error thingies indicate something physically wrong with your drive. Either it was already dying or there may be dust in the connector (or at least a bad connector), which caused me reformatting a perfectly functioning drive and so I was the one who destroyed its data.

This is an old bug without any recent activity. It seems from the information provided that this is a hardware issue. We are thus closing this bug.

Thanks!