This is what I was afraid of! The drive is a pretty new WD 160GB. I guess it is time for me to check out their warranty. It can't be more than a month old. Is there a utility like e2fsck that might help? Something to inspect the drive or the data? I was going to unmount the drive and run e2fsck, but was not sure if this would help. SCOTT S. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Callum Lerwick Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:04 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Drive Issues? > 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... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list