On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Matthew Dickinson wrote: > > more error messages are present: it's just a small selection... > > Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, > stat=0x70 > Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x70 { DriveReady > DeviceFault SeekComplete } > Dec 30 15:37:58 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=188, > stat=0x78 > Dec 31 17:00:40 jaguar kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > Dec 31 17:00:40 jaguar kernel: hda: drive not ready for command > Dec 31 17:00:40 jaguar kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady > SeekComplete DataRequest } > Dec 31 17:00:40 jaguar kernel: hda: drive not ready for command Hi Matt! This is definitely a hardware error, not an ext3 problem. IBM DTLA Drive, i presume? A e2fsck -c should at least mark the badblocks so that no new data gets written on them, but in the long run i would suggest that you replace the drive. best regards, michael