forgot the config and the dmesg.. Nico Nico Schottelius [Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:54:03AM +0100]: > Hello! > > Since yesterday I have the problem that at bootup my cryptoloop (/home) does not > get mounted anymore. These messages are produced by the kernel: > > ---------------- snip ------------------ > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed > XFS mounting filesystem hda1 > Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: hda1 > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8305458, > sector=8305454 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 8305454 > I/O error in filesystem ("hda3") meta-data dev hda3 block 0x776090 > ("xfs_trans_read_buf") error 5 buf count 8192 > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd8850e00, 00:0a:e6:ba:f6:c2, IRQ 5 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8305458, > sector=8305454 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 8305454 > I/O error in filesystem ("hda3") meta-data dev hda3 block 0x776090 > ("xfs_trans_read_buf") error 5 buf count 8192 > > > ---------------- snap ------------------ > > > if I log in as root and issue `mount /home`, it works: > > ---------------- snip ------------------ > > XFS mounting filesystem loop0 > Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: loop0 > > ---------------- snap ------------------ > > Yesterday the errors > `hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }` > repeated (don't have the dmesg, forgot to dump kernel messages). > > Now I am trying the following: > enabling Anticipatory I/O scheduler (additionaly to the Deadline I/O > scheduler) and disabling Vector-based interrupt indexing. > > This is just a guess, can someone tell me if that is senseless or if my > harddisk is most likely broken? > > Attached dmesg from 'running' system and the new .config (changes see > above) I made. > > Help is very much appreciated, > > Nico, who just had a hard disk crash some weeks ago