thanks, johannes and paul. i had to set up a simple nfs-boot to be able to fsck my root device for bad blocks; that's what i'm doing right now (and it will take a while). if the bad blocks aren't marked by badblocks i guess i'll have to exchange the hd ...
<sk> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:00:45AM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:48:14PM +0200, stefan kersten wrote: > > i'm a bit concerned because of the dmesg output i'm getting lately > > when accessing certain files (see below). this is on a tibook G4, > > debian/unstable 2.6.5 (built from stock kernel sources). any ideas > > what might go wrong? i'm still hoping it's not a hardware error ... > > Hi. I had the same problem. Also that my disk just stopped doing data > transfers after increasingly shorter periods. > I installed smartmontools to make sure it was the disk, I can advise you > to do the same :) If the disk says it's broken, it's broken. The disks > in the TiBooks have pretty good SMART support. > > Good luck, > > Paul >
