On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? > I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to > look for; > > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 > action 0x0 > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:28:42:d3:37/00:00:13:00:00/e0 > tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 20480 in > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: res 51/40:22:64:d3:37/40:00:13:00:00/e0 > Emask 0x9 (media error) > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: Info fld=0x4000000 (nonstd), Invalid sda: sense = > 72 11 > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 322425666 > Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3: EH complete Looks like /dev/sda has one or more bad sectors. Run smartctl with the long self test option or check the file system with badblocks. Details on how to run each program are located here: http://prefetch.net/articles/diskdrives.smart.html http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/08/27/checking-devices-for-bad-sectors/ Hope this helps, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net