On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:38 +0530, Rohit V Bhute wrote:
I looked through the output of dmesg and found the following piece interesting.
<cut> [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [17180032.820000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=23677870, sector=23677863 [17180032.820000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown [17180032.820000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 23677863 [17180032.820000] Buffer I/O error on device hda1, logical block 2959725 [17180032.824000] EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1470023 contains a hole at offset 0 [17180032.824000] Remounting filesystem read-only <cut>
harddisk just MIGHT be dying. Mount it as read only and back it up ASAP. Same symptoms on my old HDD. It finally died! :(