[LI] Hard disk problem !

[Moinak Ghosh <moinakg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

   I am facing a problem with my hard disk. Sometimes Linux
   hangs giving the message -
   
   "hda: lost interrupt" 
   
   Then after a while it says -
   
   "ide0 reset success" 
   
   and the prompt reappears and everything seems ok.  But 
   yesterday it happened again as soon as I booted and even
   after the "ide0 reset" message the system hanged for a 
   long time.  So I had to switch off my PC.
   
   Do you think this is a HDD controller failure or is something
   wrong with the hard disk itself (Quantum Fireball). 
   
   Finally when I switched on my PC again Linux said "/dev/hda5"
   has problems and asked for the root password (for manual fsck).
   When I tried to login as root I got the message - 
   
   "bash: out of virtual memory"
   
   and the system rebooted.  This happens every time I boot.
   So I am unable to do anything. Sadly I have a boot disk but 
   don't have a root disk :((  Any suggestions welcome.
   
Regards,
Moinak.
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