If your disk supports S.M.A.R.T get smarttools. Check freshmeat.net for its whereabouts. With smarttools you should be able to get a detailed report on what is going on with the life expectancy of your disk. Cheers, Patrick On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:38, Peter Blomgren wrote: > I'm seeing EXT3 errors: > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=81156390, sector=21233872 > kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 21233872 > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=1325185, block=2654234 > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=81156390, sector=21233872 > kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 21233872 > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=1325186, block=2654234 > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure > kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure > > Is this drive dying, or can it be saved? (Kernel 2.4.18-14) > > -- > \Peter. > <pre> > /"\ | Peter Blomgren > \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | Assistant Professor > X against HTML mail | San Diego State University > / \ and postings | http://terminus.sdsu.edu/ > </pre> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list