hi,
   A few days ago I faced a strange problem when I booted my laptop which runs 
Dapper on an i-386 and it went for a file system scan after 30 mounts it 
detected file system errors in root partition which got solved when I ran fsck 
from the recovery shell but the problem in my /home partition persisted
Everytime I restarted the laptop it gave the following lines:

buffer i/o error on sectors contiguously from 2661645 (i hope i m not missing 
any digit)

This took 20 minutes because it was going line by line for each location

Then I tried to fix the prolem in recovery mode to see what was happening
WHAT I FOUND OUT WAS

There was a problem for which  "ide: error not recognised" was returned,and 
then SeekDriveReady returned error in the LBA sector...What else could go wrong 
was the question?

Then it logged me in and strangely I found everything was working fine even 
configurations in my home directory.... So the first thing I did was in fstab i 
removed check of /home so tht it doesnt exasperate me for 20 mins filling my 
screen with
buffer i/o error n then location counting.......................
I will probably check it again with parted because fsck failed again for those 
sectors

Now can anyone has any idea about an idea tht what might be wrong n everything 
is fine so it is worth bothering or should I go n sue Acer for a new hard disk 
cos my warranty covers me till mid JUNE....
Is it a hard disk problem??
Do give me your views

Regards,
Vivek


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