Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751706AbWAKRoH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:44:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751708AbWAKRoH (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:44:07 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:31141 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751706AbWAKRoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:44:05 -0500 Subject: Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue? From: Lee Revell To: jerome lacoste Cc: Alan Cox , Robert Hancock , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <5a2cf1f60601110726r46805e1dl784f0a0ca20c128@mail.gmail.com> References: <5ttip-Xh-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <43C4493A.4010305@shaw.ca> <5a2cf1f60601110030u358c12fcscf79067cbc3eebe0@mail.gmail.com> <1136986688.28616.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <5a2cf1f60601110552t5e9afa0dr7785b22ae6dbd99b@mail.gmail.com> <5a2cf1f60601110726r46805e1dl784f0a0ca20c128@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:44:02 -0500 Message-Id: <1137001442.27255.53.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:26 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote: > Could something else (bad cable or disk controller ) trigger these > issues? > > It would be great if we users had a quick way to decipher these > messages. > > E.g. > > "Buffer I/O error on device xxxx, logical block yyyyyyy" > > Usualy a disk failure, may also be caused by.... This is not a bad idea, "status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }" in my experience always indicates a failing hard drive. Maybe a "Possible drive or media failure" could be added? Lee - 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/