Re: puzzling error message

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:25:08AM +0000, Matthew Dickinson wrote:
> more error messages are present: it's just a small selection...
> 
> Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, 
> stat=0x70
> Dec 30 15:17:34 jaguar kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x70 { DriveReady 
> DeviceFault SeekComplete }

OK.  You're getting device fault error messages back from the IDE
controller, and the filesystem is showing up bad data.

> > > i'm suspicious i have a hard disk error (it's a new laptop that's less 
> > > than a month old) and i wouldn't mind proof!

Looks that way to me, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
 Stephen