On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232 > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), > sector 63232 > > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine > till now. not necessarily... === What did you CHANGE ?? -- if you changed the kernel ... make sure yur kernel supports the motherboard ( ide chipset ) -- did you add a new disk somewhere ?? - use only one ide drive per cable if you're having these problems -- check your ide cables for kinks and corners and places where it touches metal -- is it ext2 or ext3 ?? - does (e2fsck) ext2 come out clean -- make sure your IDE cables is secure and is 80 conductor ( not fatter looking 40-conductor cables ) -- if the disks has been running for a while.. - what changed - when you make backups ... use a DIFFERENT media for backups when you already suspect a bad disk... as your good backup will be overwritten by bad data.. - when you restore the data, you might be restoring the original bad-disk-symptom vs the disk problem itself -- if its a brand new disks.. - you could have a bad disk - or lots of possible reasons -- few other stuff to do before tossing the disks.. -- move the disk to a different box... does it show the same symptom ( and if it did... the disk might be bad ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]