[wplug] Input/output error

Rahul Kalaskar rkalaskar at aethon.com
Mon Aug 25 08:46:22 EDT 2003


I had the same issue few months back. I was using RH7.3 with IBM
Travelstar HDD. The problem did go away after I replaced the hard disk. 

Rahul

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:36, Ryan Brown wrote:
> This is driving me crazy... I keep getting Input/output error errors when I
> run commands such as "ls", etc.
>  
> One would think the drive is bad but I know for sure it is not as I have
> used 3 different brand new drives on this machine and each is reporting the
> same problem. Also tried the one drive in another machine to make sure it
> wasn't the controller, ram, etc. The weird thing is... It happens every 7-10
> days. If I reboot then it goes back to normal and all works fine for another
> 7-10 days before it starts saying Input/output error and I need to reboot it
> again, so something is definitely wrong.
>  
> This is a RH 9 box running ext3.
>  
> Any suggestions on what to try?
>  
> Ryan





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