either your drive is misconfigured in the bios or by LILO (would be nice if you included full info on the drive that your getting errors on)
but its more likely that the drive is failing, if its a recent IBM or Maxtor both companies have excellent diagnostics software for their drives, not sure about other companies. also is this error on a fresh install or has the system been running a while then this started happening? a bout 2 weeks ago i powered down a p100 (with debian) to yank the cdrom, another admin fired it up a week later and 2 out of 3 of the drives were dead. nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Deloy Cole wrote: dcole >Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting this IO error when booting my debian linux machine. And e2fsck won't fix it. dcole > dcole >hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } dcole >hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, sector=2310168 dcole >end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168 dcole > dcole >What utilities can I use to get past this error? dcole > dcole >Thanks, Deloy dcole > dcole >---------------------------------------------- dcole >Prof Deloy Cole dcole >Greenville College dcole >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dcole >Phone: 618-664-2800 x4318 dcole > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:32pm up 138 days, 2:28, 5 users, load average: 1.64, 1.60, 1.51