Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jul 1997 22:48:19 +0100 | From | Jose Orlando Pereira <> | Subject | Re: ext2 errors |
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Ion Badulescu wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Andrej Presern wrote: > > > I'm experiencing problems with my ext2 partition also. Even though I had > > *NO* crashes at all and the machine was *ALWAYS* properly shut down, I > > was welcomed by a ton of errors when I tried to boot my machine today. > > [...] > > > Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > > SeekComplete Error } > > Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=626563, sector=9666 > > Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector > > 9666 > > > The machine is a Cyrix166+ on a Shuttle HOT-557 Spacewalker MB, Linux > > kernel > > 2.0.30, disk is Quantum Fireball TM2110A. > > This has nothing to do with ext2, it's your hardware that's failing. > Usually such messages denote a dying IDE hard drive, altough sometimes a > faulty IDE interface can create problems as well.
I don't think so. I've seen this happening also with 2.0.30, an Intel SMP chipset and a Quantum Fireball. It started right after I made the switch from 2.0.27 to 2.0.30 and happened consistently during one week befor it was noticed when an ugly crash with extensive ext2 corruption happened.
After going back to 2.0.27 I have not seen it again and it has been under moderate load (8 regular users and a web crawler, which makes heavy use of disk IO to store and retrieve indexes) for about 2 weeks now.
-- Jose Orlando Pereira * jop@di.uminho.pt * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/~jop *
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