[61418] in Hotline Meeting
dying hard drive: m2-225-4 (GX150)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Thu Sep 19 17:09:35 2002
Message-Id: <200209192107.RAA18648@m2-225-3.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:07:27 -0400
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
When I came into this cluster, m2-225-4 (running Linux) was at an "enter
root password to fsck disk" prompt, having had its /dev/hda7 fail its fsck.
I supplied the password and ran "fsck /dev/hda7". Two times I recieved
an error from fsck like the following:
Error reading block 3768320 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. Ignore error<y>?
I answered "y" to all of fsck's questions; there was only one other
filesystem error to be fixed. I then rebooted.
The system went through various init scripts and while running "Starting
public workstation integrity check", the kernel syslogged a number of
messages to the console about I/O errors, uncorrectable errors, like this:
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError} ...
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda), sector 29956112
Looks like a dying disk to me.
