> > 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 ??
I don't think I've changed anything :( > -- if you changed the kernel ... make sure yur kernel supports the > motherboard ( ide chipset ) Nope, been running with this kernel for months. > -- did you add a new disk somewhere ?? > - use only one ide drive per cable if you're having these problems Nope - and the drive I'm using is rather old :( It's a rather old machine. > -- check your ide cables for kinks and corners and places where it touches > metal I haven't opened the box recently, but I'll check anyway. > -- is it ext2 or ext3 ?? > - does (e2fsck) ext2 come out clean ext2 and the first time I ran e2fsck it didn't come out clean. The subsequent runs did. > -- make sure your IDE cables is secure and is 80 conductor ( not > fatter looking 40-conductor cables ) See above > -- if the disks has been running for a while.. > - what changed Not a lot. The machine doesn't get rebooted very often > - 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.. Because the machine isn't very busy it doesn't get backed up very often, but I'll have a look at the the backups too. > - when you restore the data, you might be restoring the > original bad-disk-symptom vs the disk problem itself Not much data to restore, only a small amount of data from a MySQL database, which is emailed to me every day. I was looking for a reason (other than the sheer hell of it) for rebuilding this box - I guess I just found it! Cheers everyone, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]