Thank you very much for the help guys! :) I've installed smartmontools, memtest86+. First thing I tried was memtest86+, and it reported failure/errors. I am using 2 memory chips, and luckily the fault only on the first chip, so now I can still run linux safely with 512MB.
At the moment, I'm still running suggested dd to check for hard drive IO fault. I think the hard disk is pretty safe.. at least until I see the command finish without error in the log. Thanks again, now I know what to use for checking memory in the future. memtest86+ even allow me to make a bootable disk to check memory. cool! On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:58:18 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Justin Guerin wrote: > > I would recommend installing smartmontools and checking the health of your > > hard drive. This many errors suggests hardware problems. You should not > > need to check your drives once a day. > > Also, install memtest86+ (packages in sarge and sid, and also easily > downloadable to run from a boot floppy, search for it in google) and run it > overnight to make sure you are not experiencing memory errors (which would > corrupt the filesystem). > > If it is not bad memory, make sure the cabling to the disk (both power AND > data) is not bad (the only easy way to do this test is to replace the cables > with another data cable and plug the disk to another power cord). > > To find out if you have IO problems, run this (replace hd# with the physical > device that is giving you problems): > > dd if=/dev/hd# of=/dev/null bs=1M > > as root. It will try to read all sectors of the HD (and write them to > /dev/null, i.e. do nothing). > > Afterwards, check the kernel logs (dmesg command, or look at > /var/log/kern.log) for IO errors. > > If it is not bad cabling, get all the data off that disk at once and declare > it a paper weight. Disk problems snowball quicky and quite soon you won't > be able to salvage anything from that drive... > > -- > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
