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? Thanks, James
