[colug-432] I/O Error?

[FiL Farris]

Thanks for the answers!

I had not read the "Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the
same bad sector."  reply.

OP is this the 1520 you were wanting to replace the drive on anyhow?  At
least this would help justify the new purchase.






On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Judd Montgomery <judd at jpilot.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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