[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Thomas W. cranston]

On 12/06/2012 06:54 AM, Judd Montgomery wrote:
> 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
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Bad sector

Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector.

Tom