[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Judd Montgomery]

On 12/06/2012 09:32 AM, Thomas W. cranston 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
> Bad sector
>
> Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector.
>
> Tom
In my experience the bad sectors will rapidly spread and within days or 
weeks significant portions of the drive will be unusable and further 
more cause the OS to hang.  I'd get what data off of it you can and buy 
a new drive if its important.  Your experience may vary.

Judd