Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Alberto Brealey G.
> What utilities can I use to get past this error? it can be a damaged hard disk but i had this problem to, like a year ago, and disabled SMART for the offending harddrives and never had that problem again, so you might want to try that. alberto

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread aphro
either your drive is misconfigured in the bios or by LILO (would be nice if you included full info on the drive that your getting errors on) but its more likely that the drive is failing, if its a recent IBM or Maxtor both companies have excellent diagnostics software for their drives, not sure ab

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Francois Deppierraz
Deloy Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, > sector=2310168 > end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168 It seems to be a very bad hardware problem :

How do I fix an IO Error...

2000-01-04 Thread Deloy Cole
Help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm getting this IO error when booting my debian linux machine.  And e2fsck won't fix it.   hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, sector=2310168 end_requ