[geeks] eek2, debian

[Dan Sikorski]

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:39, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Just took a look at my dmesg:
<snip>
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 15402598
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=15402664,
> sector=15402600
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 15402600

Yeah, seen that one before

> hdb1 is where /var is (well, hdb1 is /export2, which has /export2/var,
> which /var is symlinked to).
> 
> The errors always seem to be on the same 3 sectors.  Err, well those
> secors are the most common, but looking back through the rest of
> /var/log/messages, I see it mentioning other sectors, though not as
> commonly as those.
> 
> Does this mean failing harddrive?  Can I make it work around those
> sectors in an attempt to make this keep working long enough to get a
> replacement? 

Every time i've seen that it's been a failing drive.  If it were scsi,
you could remap the sectors which would buy you some time.  But if i
were you, i would consider that drive already dead.  Don't keep anything
important on it.

> Oh God, I feel sick.  As if I didn't have enough stress, this has to
> happen now when I have no money and no time.

You feel sick? good god man, it's only a failing drive.  Stress is a
state of mind, just relax, worrying about it isn't gonna make the drive
any better.  (granted that's how i handled my college classes, and i
failed out, YMMV).  High blood pressure runs in my family, but i don't
really have a problem, (mine is at the low end of the "normal" range) i
wonder why....

	-Dan Sikorski