Ming wrote:

I got the have install a SATA HardDisk on the machine recently. But somethings the Disk cannot be accessed. And mesg tells that it is IO error. Is it a hardware problem or system setting problem.

Here is the message from dmesg.

sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 27099199
EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1687553
contains a hole at offset 0

Thank you.

Regards, Ming

On 8/29/07, *Ming* <cyberming@gmail.com mailto:cyberming@gmail.com> wrote:

I got the have install a SATA HardDisk on the machine recently.
But somethings the Disk cannot be accessed. And mesg tells that it
is IO error. Is it a hardware problem or system setting problem.

Here is the message from dmesg.

    sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
    end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 27099199
    EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1687553
    contains a hole at offset 0


Thank you.

Regards,
Ming

Hi - I had some funny problems with an SATA drive. I found the problem to be that the power connector was a little loose. I would check that first.

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