[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Thomas W. cranston]

On 12/06/2012 08:36 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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I don't Know. Perhaps I do not know how to interpret the data.

Looking at the man right now.

What are you getting at?

Tom