Re: Disk errors?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/14/2010 12:23 PM, Christopher Judd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	This morning I did an aptitude full-upgrade this morning (squeeze
> amd64).  I am now seeing this type of message (from dmesg):
>
> Jun 14 13:11:40 gibbs kernel: [ 1074.152989] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct
> 0x0 SErr 0x1990000 action 0xe frozen
> Jun 14 13:11:40 gibbs kernel: [ 1074.152995] ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg 10B8B
> Dispar LinkSeq TrStaTrns }
> Jun 14 13:11:40 gibbs kernel: [ 1074.153004] ata1: hard resetting link
> Jun 14 13:11:40 gibbs kernel: [ 1074.153007] ata1: nv: skipping hardreset on
> occupied port
> Jun 14 13:11:44 gibbs kernel: [ 1078.520051] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps
> (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> Jun 14 13:11:44 gibbs kernel: [ 1078.540414] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Jun 14 13:11:44 gibbs kernel: [ 1078.540419] ata1: EH complete
>
>
> How can I tell if this a software issue, or some disk/hardware issue (I am
> running kernel 2.6.32-3-amd64; 2.6.32-5 was installed with the upgrade, but
> failed to boot)?

Boot from a rescue CD (I like Sidux) and fsck the disk?

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