Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jul 1997 14:46:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: ext2 errors |
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Andrej Presern wrote:
> I'm experiencing problems with my ext2 partition also. Even though I had > *NO* crashes at all and the machine was *ALWAYS* properly shut down, I > was welcomed by a ton of errors when I tried to boot my machine today.
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> Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=626563, sector=9666 > Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector > 9666
This has nothing to do with ext2, it's your hardware that's failing. Usually such messages denote a dying IDE hard drive, altough sometimes a faulty IDE interface can create problems as well. I take it that your motherboard uses a Triton chipset (since you tried to disable DMA transfers) which are pretty good in general, so it's probably your hard drive.
> I did a 'find / -type f | xargs -n 1 cat >/dev/null' and got > an error on a number of files.
If the errors show up randomly, it could be an issue with the interface; if they're consistant, the drive is toast.
Ionut
-- It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
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