> : Greetings,
> : While grepping out for terms in my web log files the following error
> : messages showed up in my /var/log/messages file:
> : Aug 1 00:01:34 brama kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> : Aug 1 00:01:34 brama kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=7357944, sector=7357881
> : Aug 1 00:01:34 brama kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 7357881
> : Any advice in understanding and remedying this would be greatly appreciated.
> As a self-followup:
> I am running the latest kernel available to RH6.2:
> 2.2.19-6.2.7smp
> The system consists of 2 800 Mhz PIII's, 2 20GB HDs (not running RAID with most
> content and user partitions on one disk; /var, /usr on the other) 512MB RAM.
> : Much thanks.
> : Max Pyziur
> [recycle]
hdb means that the problem is on the slave device on
the first IDE controller. 03:41 is the device number
(in hexadecimal) of hdb1, meaning the first partition
on hdb.
Assuming that your harddisks are IDE disks, and they
are master and slave on the first IDE controller this
means that hdb1 is the first partition on the second
harddisk.
The error message mostly sounds like a deffective
media. Though this seldom happens on harddisks I think
you should check the drive for bad blocks.
There might be other posible explanations of this
error message. A few guesses on other explanations
are: problems with the controller, a cable not
properly connected, bad timings in the communication.
Have you been experimenting with hdparm?
Are you able to reproduce the error, perhaps by
doing "wc /dev/hdb" or "wc /dev/hdb1".?
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Kasper Dupont
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