On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:40:58AM -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> I received the following errors in my LogWatch report this morning:
>
> > --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------
> >
> >WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
> > Buffer I/O error on device fd0p10...: 17 Time(s)
> > Buffer I/O error on device fd0p11...: 17 Time(s)
> > Buffer I/O error on device fd0p12...: 17 Time(s)
^^^
>
> …etc (about 20 lines of this)
>
> And…
>
> > ---------------------- pam_unix End -------------------------
> >
> >Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> >Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 8
> >Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 16
> >Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 24
> >Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 32
^^^
> What does this mean? Bad sectors on one of the hard drives causing
> read/write errors?
That's your floppy drive. Something tried to read a defective or
non-existent floppy diskette. Judging by the sector numbers, I'd say
non-existent. What were you doing at 13:39:36 yesterday?
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