Bill Moseley wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But if 'ls' is reporting an I/O error that does > > not bode well. Check your /var/log/syslog for errors. You may have a > > disk drive crash. I/O errors usually means a drive gone bad. > > Well, I was going to argue against a disk failure. For one thing I > can't find anything unusual in any of my logs. Second, the laptop seems > to work fine -- except when I try and run apt-get or aptitude and it > finally locks up with the Input/output error message. I'm using the > laptop now -- and it's running quite a bit and just finished running > the daily updatedb to stressed the hard drive quite a bit. Hmm... Check DMA being on and perhaps turn it off with hdparm? It could be the the device does not react well in regards to DMA when there is a lot of disk activity? But usually when I have unsupportable dma the linux kernel detects this fairly well and automatically disables it. Bob
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