> I've never dealt with disks even half as large. I will be more > curious that helpful here I'm sure but - > Could you post the actual error messages your are getting and where the > errors are being written to? Also this 'noise,' what kind of noise? > Describe it more. When does it happen, any particular time? The errors are shown when I do: dmesg hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=111610781, sector=104333336 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 104333336 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=111610795, sector=104333350 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 104333350 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=111610781, sector=104333336 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 104333336 -------------------------------------------------------- Other times I see the messages on the text screen: This machine has the I/O errors in /etc : EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=198603, block4 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3146895, sector=3146832 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 3146832 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=198605, block4 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3146895, sector=3146832 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 3146832 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=198608, block4 --------------------------------------------------- The noise is heard while I'm restarting the computer, and it complains about the FS . Then I do: e2fsck -y /dev/hda3 and while the disk is correcting itself it makes a noise like a suing machine. Thank you for your interest. Bye, Helen _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk