Take a a backup of all ur important stuff soon. Looks like you might
have
developed some bad sectors.
Soj.
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Amarendra GODBOLE wrote:
> Hello World,
>
> Recently my hard disk has started giving out some error messages,
> which I am not able to decode at all. The messages are displayed
> as soon as I start doing some disk related activity.
> Following are the msgs. :
>
> + ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
> + hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> + hda: drive not ready for command
>
> Also, my machine becomes tooooooo slow.
> Can someone help me out ?
try using badblocks (man badblocks)
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