on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:08:42PM -0500, Joey Tsai (joeytsai@angband.org) wrote:
> Hi, right in the middle of my dist-upgrade-ing to xfree 4.0.1 (hurray!), I'm
> getting a physical hard drive error.
>
> My terminal says:
>
> Setting up xfonts-100dpi (4.0.1-1) ...
> md5sum: read error on stdin
> dpkg: error processing xfonts-100dpi (--configure):
> subprocess md5sum returned error exit status 2
>
> the system log (at the read error, I believe) says:
>
> Nov 3 17:05:27 corban kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Nov 3 17:05:27 corban kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=18817, sector=18754
> Nov 3 17:05:27 corban kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 18754
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on what to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
Remount partition r/o.
Back up critical data.
If possible, run a badblocks test. There are both read-only
(nondestructive) and write-read tests (this will overwrite the
partition).
Might be helpful to know how old the drive is -- failures tend to occur
on very new (burn-in) and older (2-3+ years) systems. Generally
problems get worse, not better, so it's probably a time for an upgrade.
Strongly recommend a tape backup system, SCSI preferred.
There have been a number of posts in various contexts (lists/newsgroups)
about DMA issues. I'm not familiar with them, suggest you become so.
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