"Matt." <matt_benvenuti_remove@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:KhRjb.10198$PM2.1215688@news20.bellglobal.com ...
> Hi all!
>
> quick recap. Two nights ago I started a Gentoo install, stage 1. The
> bootstrap hadn't finished prior to my going to sleep. When I woke up, I
> found I received an IOError. So yesterday, with nothing better to do than
> watch the Leafs get pummeled (sp?) by the Devils, I decided to start from
> scratch. Complete new reboot, delete the partitions, etc.
>
> I'm running a P4 1.6 Ghz Gigabyte motherboard with 512 MB RDRAM. The hard
> drive is the second HD in my system (first is Windows XP Pro), a 60 GB
> Maxtor (probably 7200 rpm). And I have a Sympatico ADSL connection (High
> speed, not Ultra high speed for anybody who knows). I have not
overclocked
> the chipset.
>
> I partitioned:
> hdb1 100M ext3,
> hdb2 1024M swap
> hdb3 the rest reiserfs
>
> Good news is that it made it through the bootstrap in about 3 hours (6:30
> pm - 9:30). The mirror site that was being used was OregonState.
>
> So I started the next step in the instructions, and got to the "emerge
> system" step. And I let it run. When I woke up this morning this error
was
> on my screen (about last 20 lines). Please excuse typos, this is a screen
> to paper to screen process.
> --------------------------
> emerge system
> ......
> <<< obj /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.13.90.0.18.so
> --- !mtime obj /usr/lib/libiberty.a
> --- !mtime obj /usr/lib/libbfd.la
> --- !mtime obj /usr/lib/libbfd.a
> hdb: dma-intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma-intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect=2320860, sector
> 103872
> end_request: I/O error, dev 3:43 (hdb), sector 103872
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> FILE "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1603 in unmerge
> retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0], mysplit[1], portage.root,
> unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"])
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1960, in unmerge
> mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld)
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 4469, in unmerge
> mymd5=perform_md5(obj, calc_prelink=1)
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1951, in
perform_md5
> return perform_checksum(x,calc_prelink)[0]
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 205, in
> perform_checksum
> return fchksum.fmd5t(filename)
> IOError; [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/usr/lib/libbfd-2.13.90.0.18.so'
> -------------------------------
>
> It left me at the "cdimage portage #" prompt. An adsl-status run at this
> point produced the following error:
> bash adsl-status: command not found.
>
> It seems to me the error is reporting bad sectors on the hard drive? I
> could be wrong, of course. If so, please let me know.
>
> So I have two questions. First, are there any tools that I can use to
mark
> bad sectors as unusable? Second, how do I start my adsl session again,
and
> then commence from the beginning of stage 2?
>
> Any other comments/insights greatly appreciated.
>
> cheers,
> Matt.
>
>

I case anybody is still interested, the drive was determined to be
defective, and has been returned to Maxtor as it was still under warranty.
I expect a replacement in about 2 weeks or so.

cheers,
Matt.