I am not sure that it occurs once a week. It occurs randomly like once a week to once in 6 months. I am having this problem since about 6 months. The very first time, I didnt pay much attention. Now , I have seen it occur 4 times in last 6 months. I don't do any backup on it On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:09, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I've no idea what the problem is, but I use the same approach, and have > never had trouble with Linux or Windows 98. The only problem I've had > with this scheme is that duplicating Windows 2000 (in a partition on the > same drive) kills Windows 2000 - even the original (??! - it won't allow > login anymore). > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=16384k (I've tried many values for > bs. All seem to work.) > > Maybe that's helpful for helping eliminate possibilities. > > How often do you use this? Does the problem only occur once a week > because you only back it up once a week, or is there less of a correlation? > > Cheers, > Bret > > Rahul Kalaskar wrote: > > > > >Hi All, > > > >About once a week, I get a this strange error on bash command line. > >Running any command on the command line results in " Input/output > >error". Only way to get back to normal operation is to hard reboot the > >machine. I suspect this is something to do with my file system. I am > >using RH7.3 with ext3 file system on IBM Travelstar drives. > > > >I use dd to duplicate the drives. The source and the target drives are > >identical (same make, model) .I am not sure, but I suspect this error > >message comes up only on the duplicated drives. (I have never seen this > >message on my desktop which has a different drive). > > > >Any pointers on what is causing this problem would be great > > > >Thanks > >Rahul > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Ext3-users@redhat.com > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
