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Re: none

commence  Menaka Lashitha Bandara quotation:

> My Debian PowerPC ibook2 had to go down twice after some errors
> while apt-get dist-upgrading. I'm running xfs filesystems. When gdm
> now loads, and tries looking in /etc/gconf/, it spits this out on
> the console:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=641920,
> sector=641856
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 641856
> I/O error in filesystem ("ide0(3,2)") meta-data dev 0x302 block 0x9cb40
>        ("xfs_trans_read_buf") error 5 buf count 8192
>
> Now, is this a hardware defect with my hdd, or XFS error? I know it
> says I/O error in filesystem, but I just want to make sure that XFS
> is not seeing it as it's own error, when it's really the drive
> that's bad.

Those two "hda:" errors are coming from the IDE layer itself, and are
definitely hardware errors.  Back up your data immediately and have
the disk replaced.

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