> I'm experiencing problems with my ext2 partition also. Even though I had
> *NO* crashes at all and the machine was *ALWAYS* properly shut down, I
> was welcomed by a ton of errors when I tried to boot my machine today.
[...]
> Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=626563, sector=9666
> Jul 5 15:26:31 soda kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, sector
> 9666
This has nothing to do with ext2, it's your hardware that's failing.
Usually such messages denote a dying IDE hard drive, altough sometimes a
faulty IDE interface can create problems as well. I take it that your
motherboard uses a Triton chipset (since you tried to disable DMA
transfers) which are pretty good in general, so it's probably your hard
drive.
> I did a 'find / -type f | xargs -n 1 cat >/dev/null' and got
> an error on a number of files.
If the errors show up randomly, it could be an issue with the interface;
if they're consistant, the drive is toast.
Ionut
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