Very Computer

After installing the Slackware distribution of Linux on a second drive on my system,
it took me about two months to get the system and X setup and ready to use.  I was
using the system without any problems until:

hdb: read_intr: status = 0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hdb: read_intr: error = 0x40 {UncorrectableError}, LBAsect=344142, sector=344079
hdb: read_intr: error = 0x10 {SectorIdNotFound}, LBAsect=344142, sector=344079
        .
        .
        .{about 50 lines of this repeating with different LBAsect & sector}
        .
ide0: do_ide_reset: Success
        .
        .
        .{more of the earlier errors}
        .
end_request: I/O error, dev 0341, sector 606919
        .
        .
        .
        .{yep, even more}

The system stopped booting and when I attempted to reinstall everything from floppy,
it would do the same thing during the installation process.

Has anyone else seen this before?
Is my hard drive wasted? I am pretty sure that there about about 7Megs of bad blocks
on the drive.

Hd:     Seagate ST31621A
        1.62 gig

My BIOS does not support the large drives, but I had Linux below the 1023 cylinder
and it worked fine for a few months.

-Jason Bolonski

Best Regards,
Oldfield So
--

        hd: Conner 210MB

BUT, it seems to be fixed .....

        Packard Bell had the Landing Zone ( whatever that is )
        set to  0  . According to Conner ( really Seagate ) the
        correct Landing Zone for my hard drive is 685.

So far ... so good

regards,

Doug