disk error at scheduled time

[Martyn Pearce <m.pearce@inpharmatica.co.uk>]

Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes:
| Hi,
| 
| 	I'm having a strange problem here (ok, maybe it's not a real
| problem, yet). Every day (at least for the last two), I'm having a SCSI
| disk error entry in my kern.log, occurring at 6:25 am. 
| 	Yes, only at this exact time I'm having problems. 
| 	I ran 45+ kernel compilations yesterday to test the machine and
| no error was triggered. BTW, I got 6m25s for 2 make bzImage running in
| parallel and about 6m3s for 1 make bzImage alone. 

Sounds suspiciously like some cronned process is tripping over a bad
point in the disk.  umount all partitions on the disk, fsck them.  If
it's your only disk, that'll require a floppy boot.

Mx.