Hi, Claude,
I met the IO error you are writing about on my disk. I'm afraid this is a
hardware problem, not exactly bad blocks, but something like that. I had to
repartition my HD in order that all the cilinders with IO errors go to DOS
partitions, so I have rather many of them :-( And, I'mafraid, this won't
help for long, the HD is slowly dying... Hope, your IO errors are just
accidental. e2fsck finds them and then all works good. :-)
As to fdisk reports -
I can not help, possibly this is the result of HD surface damage, and you
should repartition your disk too - I don't know...
Good luck!
In message Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:01:08 -0500 (EST),
Claude Robitaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting IO error when my ext2 partition is getting about 60%
> full. More precicely, I get status 0x51 (DriveReady SeekComplete Error)
> with error 0x40 (UncorrectableError).
>
> I have 3 partitions: the first one is dos, second is swap and third is
> ext2. The disk has 64 heads, 63 sectors and 787 cylinders. fdisk reports
> first partion from 1 to 261, second from 262 to 278 and third from 279 to
> 787. However, fdisk also reports that partion 3 has different physical
> logical endings (785 vs 786 ???). Finally, the v command (in fdisk) says
> that, for partition 3, "previous sector 3173183 disagrees with total
> 3169151 62 unallocated sectors" (there should be 3173184 sectors).
>
> Any idea.
>
> Claude
>
Lew Dunin-Barkowskii
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