Messages in this thread | | | From | One Mean SOB <> | Subject | Re: kernel error | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:58:55 -0400 |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Joe George wrote:
> >I've recently reinstalled a linux system from scratch except for the > >kernel, which is 1.3.81 and I've had working fine before. After the > >install I'm getting the following errors in my syslog file and the system > >freezes. > > >Jan 1 05:48:54 nebula kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady > >SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > >Jan 1 05:48:54 nebula kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, > >CHS=995/4/38, sector=672985 > > >Have I gotten something wrong somewhere, or is this a sign that my hda is > >about to die? > > I have had the same types of errors since the mid 1.3.70's I think. Mine > pops up when I dial the phone (with minicom) while there's a lot of disk > activity. Always blows a sector or two with a similar type error.
Yes, it's always given that error when there's a lot of disk activity - installing a Slackware package, untarring a large file, compiling, etc. I never had that problem before when I was using 1.2.2, so when I upgraded to 1.3.81 and it started happening I thought it might be the kernel.
> Your HDA is probably not dying, though you should use "fsck -l" to mark > those blocks (found by running "badblocks") until you can reformat that > partition. My fix (when is happens) it to use "badblocks -w" to write over > the defective sectors, then re-mkfs and reload. The surface is *never* bad > in this case, it's always an incorrectly written data sector.
Ok, I'll try doing this..
> I've gone back to 1.3.11 temporarily to see if it's definitely a kernel > problem. I'm 99.9% sure it is, and I'd appreciate any news that you might > get on it.
I've since upgraded to 1.3.89 because someone had told me there was a problem in the kernel around 1.3.8x with "serial" drives. And so far I haven't received any more of those errors! (Knocking on wood) Perhaps it was just a bug in the kernel.
-Chris Messina cmessina@intercore.net
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