I've been tracking down intermittent disk problems, both in syncing, and in 'No Hard Disk Found" errors. I believe I solved the latter by following the guidlines on re-crimping the IDE cables. I haven't had any of those errors in about two weeks.

The problem I have now is that the disk check fails, and I followed the fsck instructions listed here and on the second disc (/dev/hdc4') I get a bunch of errors. I'm running 2.00 developer release. Does the following output suggest that my hard disk is bad?

empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hdc4 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb), sector 13369389
hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb), sector 13369389
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
.
.
.

and it just kept going like this forever (till I pulled the plug).

Any thoughts? Bad Disk?
thanks,
Thunder