[ltp] linux problem, hard drive problem or motherboard problem

[Jan Kokoska]

The only similar problem I have ever seen on my ThinkPad was when I
disabled HPA (Host Protected Area) or "Predesktop Area" as IBM calls it
in BIOS and tried to use the space... unfortunately the very creating of
filesystem, or actually writing inode superblocks after the start of HPA
caused bad errors just like you report, filling my S.M.A.R.T. log. After
a few more tries I gave up and let the machine hog 3 gigs of my space..
not worth the bother. No problems with hdd ever since. Make sure where
you're writing if you have HPA.

Jan


On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 12:13 -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I've recently been getting errors like:
> end_request, i/o error dev hda, sector (then a sector number)
> This then causes my ext3 journals to abort and I have to either just hold
> the button till the computer shuts down or sometimes ctrl-alt-del will
> work; can't use "shutdown". When I start up again, everything will be ok
> for some time before it happens again; I have my laptop on most of the
> time.
> Has anybody else experienced this? If so, do you know if this is a linux
> problem, a hard drive problem (what I sort of suspect) or a problem with
> the motherboard? If it's a hard drive problem, has anybody had to replace
> theirs and how expensive is it? I have a thinkpad T23.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
> 
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
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