Re: Ext2 (dma ?) error

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 07 2001 - 15:53:32 EST


> Fsck discovered an error it wasn't able to fix. This error never
> appeared before and my Seagate HD actually should be alright.

Umm the error says not

> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompleteError }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect = 2421754, sector
> 210048
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 2100448

Thats a media error. It may go away if the block is rewritten , on a reformat
etc. But its the disk reporting a bad block. Now that could be a 2.4 artifact
(incredibly unlikely) so try fscking with 2.2 just to be sure is not an error
reporting bug.
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