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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jerome lacoste <jerome.lacoste@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:38:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136986688.28616.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a2cf1f60601110030u358c12fcscf79067cbc3eebe0@mail.gmail.com>

On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 09:30 +0100, jerome lacoste wrote:
> - scan for bad blocks

Read the entire disk (write will hide and clean up errors by
reallocating)

> - maybe check the SMART results if they are available

Definitely - failures are in the smart log

> - memory check: memtest86 & memtest86+ tests (just in case)

memory failures generally show a different pattern, you get corruption
not errors off disks.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5ttip-Xh-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-10 23:54 ` ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue? Robert Hancock
2006-01-11  8:30   ` jerome lacoste
2006-01-11 13:38     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-11 13:52       ` jerome lacoste
2006-01-11 15:26         ` jerome lacoste
2006-01-11 15:55           ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-11 17:44           ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 17:04             ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-01-10 15:06 jerome lacoste

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