On 5/10/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I told mozilla to do a search of my email messages and it seemed to
> freeze and the entire system was *very* sluggish. After trying several
> things, I finally did [Ctrl][L-Alt][1] where I saw a login prompt. But
> before I even had a chance to begin to log in, I started getting an
> error message that kept repeating about once per second. [L-Alt][2]
> showed the same thing as did 3 and 4 (where I gave up). I had managed
> to get the detailed system monitor running in the GUI, so I switched
> back over to that and killed mozilla.
by "detailed system monitor" you mean /usr/bin/top, I presume
> Responsiveness returned and the
> error message was no longer repeating. Here's the error (assuming that
> I copied it correctly since I could not figure out how to cut and paste
> from console 1 to the GUI):
>
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22206449,
> high=1, low=5429333, sector=84880
> end_request: I/O error, dev 21:06 (hde), sector 84880
>
> Does this suggest that there is something wrong with my HDD? Should I
> just disable dma (or just cripple it)?
Suggests to me that you have a bad (uncorrectable) error in at least
one sector on your HDD. Back up anything valuable (not replaceable by
reinstalling the system) to some other place not on that drive.
Consider replacing the drive. As a stopgap, you could try "mke2fs -c"
which will wipe out everything but also check for bad blocks. But
consider that the drive is on its way out.
carl
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