[colug-432] I/O Error?

[Bill Baker]

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On 12/06/2012 10:56 AM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 09:52 AM, FiL Farris wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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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:
>>
>>     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
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