> Kim C wrote: > > I have suspected that the drive might be dying, though I dont see any > > other symptoms, no noise, no syslog messages, no smart logged and no > > kernel messages. <snip> I have tried to to test the performance on /dev/hda to see if there is any problem there. > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/null bs=1024k Unfortunately for me this failed with an i/o error, so it definitely do seem to be faulty hardware. This time I got kernel messages and smart log. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=92821385, high=5, low=8935305, sector=92821033 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 92821033 Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 10379681 w83781d 1-0290: Starting device update hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=92821386, high=5, low=8935306, sector=92821041 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 92821041 Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 10379682 w83781d 1-0290: Starting device update hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=92821386, high=5, low=8935306, sector=92821049 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 92821049 Buffer I/O error on device hda2, logical block 10379683 So I will just try to recover my data, and start over. Thanks for the pointing me in the direction I didnt want to go. best regards Kim -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/