Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:12:01 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: new harddrive with media error |
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On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 06:33:52PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > Alexander Nagel wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >i installed a new drive (WDC WD5000KS-00M) in my computer and installed > >WinXP on it. Afterwards i installed Debian etch on the second one > >(HDS722512VLSA80). Everything works fine so far, but during every boot i > >get following messages in dmesg [1] > >Kernel [2] is 2.6.18 as default kernel in etch. > >the board is a asusboard with via chipset [3] > >The problem is that the boottime is very long, for every "media error" ~ > >3 sec. :-( > > That's because your hard disk has errors. > > Maybe not on the whole disk, but some parts of the disk are > certainly broken. It's a good thing you discovered this so > soon after installation, and are not relying on it yet with > all your personal data. > > You'll want to exchange the disk for one without media errors.
From the look of it, I'd say that it's size reported by disk being more than what's accessible. Take a look at the block numbers... - 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/
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