Do you have a journaling filesystem on that drive? I recently upgraded my machine at work and the new hard drive has write-back caching. Seems that journaling filesystems under Linux don't like and give these error. You can disable write back caching with hdparm -W 0. Here's a reference to some discussion on the issue. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2002/12/08/0031.html >>>>> "SS" == Scott S <swarty at charter.net> writes: SS> This is what I was afraid of! The drive is a pretty new WD 160GB. I guess SS> it is time for me to check out their warranty. It can't be more than a SS> month old. SS> Is there a utility like e2fsck that might help? Something to inspect the SS> drive or the data? I was going to unmount the drive and run e2fsck, but was SS> not sure if this would help. SS> SCOTT S. SS> -----Original Message----- SS> From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org] SS> On Behalf Of Callum Lerwick SS> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:04 PM SS> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org SS> 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? SS> Same location every time? Definitely a bad sector. Back up everything SS> important before it gets worse, and start shopping for a replacement drive. SS> ;P SS> If you keep accessing that sector, you MIGHT be able to convince the drive's SS> bad sector management to map it out, but its a bad sign. You can maybe keep SS> using the drive on an unimportant machine. SS> So when we getting an open source SpinRite? I notice there's apparently an SS> API for the needed low level access in recent kernels... SS> _______________________________________________ SS> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota SS> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org SS> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ 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