Hard Disk Errors

[Kenneth Jacker <khj@be.cs.appstate.edu>]

[testing/sarge;  2.4.26-1-686-smp]

Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog:

   Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \
                   status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
   Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \
                   error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=72196505, \
                   high=4, low=5087641, sector=16515152
   Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: end_request: I/O error, \
                   dev 03:08 (hda), sector 16515152
   Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,8)): \ 
                   ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=1032217, block=2064394

The drive (hda) is only 4 months old.  Could it being dying already?  :-(

How can I determine in which partition(s) the errors are occurring?

Is there anything I can do to "save" the drive?

Thanks for your comments!
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Prof Kenneth H Jacker       khj@cs.appstate.edu
Computer Science Dept       www.cs.appstate.edu/~khj
Appalachian State Univ
Boone, NC  28608  USA