On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 03:48:15PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
| I then looked at dmesg and I see a bunch of errors concerning my hdd.
|
| end_request: I/O error, dev 16:08 (hdc), sector 229232
| hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
| hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=72521795,
| sector=229232
| end_request: I/O error, dev 16:08 (hdc), sector 229232
| hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
| hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=72521795,
| sector=229232
| end_request: I/O error, dev 16:08 (hdc), sector 229232
That's not a good sign. It looks like you have a bad sector on the
disk, and that sector is right in the middle of your apt data files.
| These all appear when I try to do apt-get dist-upgrade. Now hdc is a
| new maxtor 40 gig hard drive that is just barely 6 months old. It
| contains all of my system partitions.
| Is it looking like its about to fail?
Looks like it to me.
| Should I be looking into backing stuff up onto my other hard
| drives?
Yes.
| Or should I just fsck the partition and see what comes up?
Yes.
| Any help would be much appreciated.
Do a complete backup of everything. Then grab a MS-DOS bootable
floppy and Maxtor's diagnostic utility from their web site. Run the
utility, and hopefully you'll get an error code that you can then
provide to their customer service to get a replacement drive. I've
done this before, except it turned out that my problem was a weak
power supply (110W, Compaq). (I'm still using my drive, btw, but in a
different machine.)
HTH,
-D
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