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

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, 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
> 

It either means that your hard drive is going out, or that drive timeouts
are off (or something like that). Is hdb a hard drive or a cdrom? If it is
a cdrom, try moving it to the secondary IDE channel, and see if the
problem is resolved. Also, what kernel are you running? Some IDE problems
were fixed in more recent 2.2.x kernels.

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