segfaults and handling/error timeouts

[Thierry Sayegh De Bellis]

Roger wrote:
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
> SeekComplete Error }
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 
> 0x8000002
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel:     Additional sense: Unrecovered read 
> error - auto reallocate failed
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: Info fld=0x713315d
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
> sector 118698333
> Aug  6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): 
> ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=14811137, 
> block=14811138
Roger,
The last time I had these messages it was for a drive that surely failed 
quite rapidly....how old is your hard disk.
You might want to consider replacing it.

HTH

Thierry