Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751591AbWAKNqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:46:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751598AbWAKNqg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:46:36 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:16050 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751582AbWAKNqf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:46:35 -0500 Subject: Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue? From: Alan Cox To: jerome lacoste Cc: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <5a2cf1f60601110030u358c12fcscf79067cbc3eebe0@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ttip-Xh-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <43C4493A.4010305@shaw.ca> <5a2cf1f60601110030u358c12fcscf79067cbc3eebe0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:38:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1136986688.28616.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 22 On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 09:30 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote: > - scan for bad blocks Read the entire disk (write will hide and clean up errors by reallocating) > - maybe check the SMART results if they are available Definitely - failures are in the smart log > - memory check: memtest86 & memtest86+ tests (just in case) memory failures generally show a different pattern, you get corruption not errors off disks. Alan - 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/