Re: [TCLUG:10633] strange errors in messages file

[Clay Fandre <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>]

Sounds like you have some bad blocks on your disk. You can run e2fsck
-c, which runs the badblocks program to find any blocks which are bad
and adds them to the bad block inode.

man e2fsck(8)
man badblocks(8)

"McNitt, Jennifer" wrote:
> 
> Periodically I have been seeing error messages display on screen.  I checked
> my messages file and the same errors are listed there.  Here is what I've
> been getting:
> 
> Nov 30 04:02:05 spot kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Nov 30 04:02:05 spot kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError
> },CHS=175/11/10, sector=98409
> Nov 30 04:02:05 spot kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector
> 98409
> Nov 30 04:02:05 spot kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)):
> ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=12417, block=49204
> 
> Also, periodically upon reboot I have had to run fsck, but I don't think I'm
> using all of the correct options to fix whatever the problem is since it
> keeps on re-occuring.
> 
> What does this mean?  How can I fix it?  I'm currently using Red Hat 6.1.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jen
> 
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Clay Fandre
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