Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue?

[Alan Cox]

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

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