Hi all, I got this rather scary message when I booted up my Debian PC last evening. First I noticed my hdd was making relatively more noise than usual. I had removed it quite recently for use in backing-up data of a windoze machine that was showing symptoms of imminent disk failure. (discovered later that it wasn't actually the disk, but the IDE cable). I connected this device as the master, booted Linux and transfered all data on the ntfs partition to a newly created vfat partition and returned the disk to where it belonged.
So, upon restarting Linux successfully, running fsck at boot, logging in and using the machine for a while whilst listening to grinding noises coming from the hdd, I heard this clicking sound just before the light of the hdd went off. I then issued ls command to list directory contents but what I got was a sequence of lost interrupt messages; hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt hda: lost interrupt and so on.......... Soon after, the following spate of messages flooded my screen. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 5511824 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 15504728 ... Bus error end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 8 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 24 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02(hda), sector 18350248 ... EXT3-fs error (device ide0 (3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted. After this, things stoped working as normal. Not knowing what to do, I logged into another VT as root and issued init 0 to bring down the system but it didn't shutdown. So I just depressed the power off button and decided to seek an explanation & help on what is really happening. The only significant change on my debian PC is of course creation of a large vfat partition and reduced RAM because of using a 256MB/133Mhz DIMM on a 100Mhz motherboard so only 133MB is seen. Don't know if this is the root cause to my problem. Otherwise my partition layout is as follows: hda1 NTFS (Not in fstab) 8GB hda2 Ext3 (Mounted root) 25GB hda3 Swap 1GB hda5 Ext3 (Mounted home) 10GB hda6 Vfat (Not in fstab) 16GB hdb1 Ext3 (Not in fstab) 8GB Shall greatly appreciate any help on what the problem might be and how to revert to a state of tranquility. Already have a backup of the most important data & configuration files so even if it means formatting hda then I'll take that route. One more bit of information. I think S.M.A.R.T, Super DMA, APM Suspend etc are all enabled for my drives in the BIOS settings i.e on "Loading Optimal Configuration Settings". Could these be having incompatibility issues with Linux? Thanks & regards -- Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi,Kenya "I choose to use Debian/GNU Linux, not because it is easy, but because it is hard." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
