[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Matt Simmons]

Did smartcrl tell you how many spare sectors you have left?

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Thomas W. cranston <
thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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