on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:04:07AM +1200, Steven Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 30 July, 2004 at 8:50 a.m. Michael G. Morey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1. I've recently had to restart GNOME
> > 2.2, and found the following errors on the console (tty01) prior to
> > rebooting:
> >
> > I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
> > I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
> > I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
> > I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
> >
> > Are these disk I/O errors? What further diagnostics can I run, to help
> > troubleshoot the problem?
>
> see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I
> would suggest the disk is stuffed.> Thanks.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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Thank you.
As others have suggested: confirm that it's not just the CD drive, in
which case it's likely harmless.
Rather than some random manufacturer's DOS/Windows based utility,
apt-get install smartmontools, then run short and long tests and check
results.
The short test has few false positives but only detects drive failures
about 70% of the time. The long test takes ~30 minutes (rather than 2),
but accurately finds 95% of defective drives.
The manufaturer utilities are very likely based on the same S.M.A.R.T.
drive features.
Peace.
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