On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Vegard Svanberg wrote: > [2834866.071770] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK > [2834866.071778] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Any ideas? Fsck will fix the errors, but report short reads while No, you don't want to run fsck on a faulty device, it'll probably make things even worse. If the data is valuable, make two copies of it (with dd(1) or dd_rescue), then run fsck on one of these. Christian. -- Bruce Schneier has found SHA-512 preimages of all these facts. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users