Re: Reiserfs and badblocks?

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@jazzfree.com>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:59:33PM +0100, Martin Rode wrote:
> The questions I have is to clearify a problem encountered a few days
> ago:
> 
> Basic setup:
> 
> - Linux Kernel 2.4.3-20mdk (Mandrake 8.0 I believe)
> - LVM configured
> - Reiserfs on top of LVM (90 GB)
> 
> The setup had worked for a few months flawlessly.
> 
> But after creating an archiver (the archiver is supposed to find new
> files and copies them into an _ARCHIVE_ directory) script which is
> triggered via cron a lot of "stat's" where done on the filesystem. They
> might have caused the messages I'm getting know when accessing certain
> files:
> 
> Feb 25 18:17:20 apu kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Feb 25 18:17:20 apu kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=70366, sector=70280
> Feb 25 18:17:20 apu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda),
> sector 70280
> 
> I assume my hard disk /dev/hda has bad blocks which have not been used
> before.

I'd backup if I were you.  A thing you can try turning off UDMA on both the
kernel and bios, and see if it improves the situation.  You can then do a
badblocks run and mark with fsck.

But if you havent changed anything, your HD is quite wounded.
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