On Monday 08 March 2010 20:08, Robert Spangler wrote: > Hello, > > 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 I would like to thank all who replied. I was able to correct this issue following the steps in this web site: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html Seems the bad block was used by /var/account/pacct.1 and after fixing this the problem went away. So again thanks to everyone. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org