[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Thomas W. cranston]

On 12/06/2012 09:52 AM, FiL Farris wrote:
> Thanks for the answers!
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> I had not read the "Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated
> the same bad sector."  reply.
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> OP is this the 1520 you were wanting to replace the drive on anyhow?  At
> least this would help justify the new purchase.
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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Judd Montgomery <judd at jpilot.org
> <mailto:judd at jpilot.org>> wrote:
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>     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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Yeah, it's the 1520. Have desired data transferred to another storage 
device. Now shopping for new HDD.

Tom