Hello, I just hit this bug too. The drive has been working without errors on sarge kernels for a couple of years and a badblocks read only test just finished without errors (non-destruct. write test ongoing, fsck's for the filesystems report no errors), so this is very likely not a defective IDE drive. Kernel 2.6.8-16sarge7 reports the drive as:
hdd: ST340823A, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdd: max request size: 128KiB hdd: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) native capacity is 78165361 sectors (40020 MB) hdd: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/1024KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) With 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2 I get tons of similar errors early at boot and can't stop the screen. I think the seek fail messages are there and all I get to syslog on another drive is: Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: printk: 897 messages suppressed. Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1 ... Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 78155993 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 51809625 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 63 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 19663560 Jul 25 18:07:29 nalle kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 51809625 I see this has been reported here and there ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/26119 ), but has anyone seen even a workaround for this? -Mikko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]