On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Michael Renner wrote: > This looks like an UDMA/Harddrive failure. Try disabling udma on the drive > (hdparm -d0 /dev/hdxxx), if the errors still occur your drive has grown > some bad sectors, replace it ASAP. > Michael Thanks for the quick response. Will do your suggested test. I was reading the logs some more and found this and was about to email the list before getting your response. Just as another data point. Feb 26 04:14:07 viper kernel: hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Feb 26 04:14:07 viper kernel: hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=47976575, sector=47976512 Feb 26 04:14:07 viper kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 21:01 (hde), sector 47976512 Feb 26 04:14:07 viper kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide2(33,1)): ext3_readdir: directory #2998273 contains a hole at offset 0 I'm assuming the root of the problem is the same since the error code is the same and the readdir problem is caused by that. Anything I should kick back to the list should turning off UDMA make the error go away? -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Developer/Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://www.themes.org/ batmanppc@themes.org =====================================================================