[CentOS] SATA HardDisk IO error

Thu Aug 30 22:15:37 UTC 2007
Denis <denis.becker at mnsu.edu>

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 at gmail.com <mailto:cyberming at 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.

Denis Becker
Information Technology - Engineering
MN State Univ., Mankato
Mankato, MN
ph: 507-389-5617
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