Harddisk dies?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:

>Hi list,
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>is this a short message of my harddisk while it dies?
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>Feb  4 07:58:02 morpheus kernel: Device 08:10 not ready.
>Feb  4 07:58:02 morpheus kernel:  I/O erroI/O error: dev 08:10, sector 188328
>there are lots more, of course, i just snipped them out....
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>thx
>roger
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Roger,

this could be also that the HD has a dma set higher than it can 
handle... But I recommend you to backup everything as quick as possible 
and do a smart check (smartctl -t long /dev/hda and after it finishes 
smartctl -a ) and a fsck -c on your disk..

Pedro Macedo