[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel message

[brad angelcyk]

It could just be a bad drive.  I had 3 bad SATA WD
drives in a row before I switched brands.  You can try
fsck on your GNU/Linux machine and also try doing a
bad sector scan on it (if you can put it in another
machine for a while).  If it works on the other
machine, it could be your IDE controller.

Hope this helps.

Brad


--- David Ross <davidross at classicnet.net> wrote:
> Could someone point me too what this error means?
> Googling says it may be a HD going bad,but it is
> brand new.
> [root at localhost]# tail /var/log/messages
> kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144
> ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed
> 
> Brand new Maxtor 40 gig HD with fresh install of
> Mandrake 9.2
> Everything works perfect except for this error
> 
> [root at localhost]# hdparm -v /dev/hda
> 
> multcount = 16(on)
> IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
> unmaskirq = 1 (on)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 4998/255/63, sectors = 80293248, start =
> 0
> 
> David
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