Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:58:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:58:49 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:3335 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:58:45 -0500 Subject: Re: continous hard disk trashing and error messages - 2.4.2-ac5 To: amitc@brocade.com (Amit Chaudhary) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 02:01:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org') In-Reply-To: from "Amit Chaudhary" at Mar 05, 2001 02:09:48 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > For the kernel 2.4.2 with the patch 2.4.2-ac5 patch, I have been getting continous hard disk trashing and the following errors in the /var/log/messages. I increased the console log level to avoid the messages. Please see below a sample set > Mar 5 12:15:59 amitc-linux mount: mount: can't open /etc/mtab for writing: Input/output error Well for once in a while I dont think this is going to be the kernel > Mar 5 12:16:04 amitc-linux kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > Mar 5 12:16:04 amitc-linux kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=25133118, sector=3670215 uncorrectable error is a bad block on the disk. At least unless something very odd is happening - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/