Re: Is my drive failing?

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 09:43 am, James Pifer wrote:
> I started having problems with my laptop last night. Thought it had
> something to do with a wireless card I was messing with, but now I don't
> think so. I'm seeing this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 0
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 1
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 2
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 3
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 4
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 5
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 6
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 7
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 8
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
> block 9
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open
> Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
> Sep 28 07:12:09 laptop su(pam_unix)[4320]: session opened for user root
> by (uid=500)
> Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session closed for user
> root
> Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session closed for user
> root
> Sep 28 09:29:59 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> Sep 28 09:30:42 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
>
> Is my drive failing? Any suggestions?
Is /dev/hdc a cdrom or other optical device, or it it a hd?

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