> times. It seems to be the same location all the time. My first reaction > was a bad sector on the HD, so; > A) Is this a Hard Drive issue, a kernel error, or another system error? > B) What would be the best course of action? Same location every time? Definitely a bad sector. Back up everything important before it gets worse, and start shopping for a replacement drive. ;P If you keep accessing that sector, you MIGHT be able to convince the drive's bad sector management to map it out, but its a bad sign. You can maybe keep using the drive on an unimportant machine. So when we getting an open source SpinRite? I notice there's apparently an API for the needed low level access in recent kernels... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20031003/b00f7cbf/attachment.pgp