[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Judd Montgomery]

On 12/02/2012 01:45 PM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:
> Hi
>
>   > 12:39:48 tom at 1520: ~/Desktop$ md5sum
> linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso
>   > md5sum: linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso: Input/output error
>
> Wondering if the above indicates bad checksum, or something wrong w/my
> laptop?
>
I've seen errors like that many times and it always means my hard drive 
is going bad and the file is on a bad sector.  Did you look at dmesg or 
the syslog and see what the kernel is complaining about?

Judd