On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > IDE, I assume? On what sort of controller, running in what mode? Sorry, suitably vague as to be useless :-) More info for you all. I just checked dmesg (the fs tripped into ro mode again last night) to get my system output and found this: EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)): ext3_readdir: directory #80865 contains a hole at offset 4096 Aborting journal on device md(9,8). ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs abort (device md(9,8)): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only Remounting filesystem read-only EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted This continues for a while.... maybe around 100 lines before: EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device md(9,8)) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted Then nothing more before I started to fix it. Does this give any more pointers? Thanks for all your help so far. Here is the disk/IDE config: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xa000-0xa007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xa008-0xa00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 50 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0 PDC20262: chipset revision 1 PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc408-0xc40f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0 PDC20262: chipset revision 1 PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide4: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio ide5: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdk:DMA, hdl:DMA hda: IBM-DTLA-305020, ATA DISK drive hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: IBM-DTLA-305020, ATA DISK drive hde: IBM-DTLA-305040, ATA DISK drive hdk: IBM-DTLA-305040, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xb400-0xb407,0xb802 on irq 10 ide5 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xd402 on irq 11 hda: 40188960 sectors (20577 MB) w/380KiB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63, UDMA(100) hdc: 40188960 sectors (20577 MB) w/380KiB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(33) hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/380KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(66) hdk: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/380KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, UDMA(66) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hde: hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 > hde3 hde4 hdk: hdk1 hdk2 < hdk5 hdk6 hdk7 hdk8 hdk9 > hdk3 hdk4 John.