Thankyou. Also since you point out it is a hardware failure, I must mention that I upgraded the RAM very recently and some connection may have turned loose. I will open up the machine and take a look. Thanks for the heads up.
NJ On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:34:17 +0530 > "नितिन जसवाल {Nitin Jaswal}" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cat /var/log/syslog|grep error > [...] > > [ 72.464000] hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error > } > > [ 72.464000] hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } > [...] > > Looks like hardware failure, i.e., the disk is probably > about to die. Make a backup, and run fsck on each of the > partitions. > > Regards, > Gora > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/