I am getting the following error messages on my thinkpad (along with nasty crashes):
hda: dma_intr: Status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error }
hda: dma_intr: Error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error }, LBAsect=35053408,
sector=5184
end_request: I/O error, dev=03:09 (hda), sector 5184My web search revealed a few people saying this meant someone's hard drive was failing, so I've ordered a replacement hard drive and am backing up the entire contents of my hard drive to another computer (just in case...). The computer (and thus hard drive) is now one and a half years old, which seems like a short lifetime for a hard drive, except that I leave it on constantly, and have been using ext3, so it hasn't been spinning down.
My kernel is 2.4.20, which I compiled just recently, so another explanation would be that the new kernel is causing IDE problems. Prior to this kernel I was on 2.4.17, I believe. For the moment I've turned off my swap, thinking that that should make hard disk errors less likely to simply freeze up the system. I just won't run X in my unstable chroot...
Any suggestions, advice or wisdom?
David Roundy (hoping someone can tell me that when my new drive arrives I can just save it for a rainy day)
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