[wplug] fsck running in background?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Tuesday 21 September 2004 23:14, John Harrold wrote:
| > Hey,
| >
| > I was trying to access a drive that I auto mount (/dev/hdc1) but when
| > I tried to access the mount point the terminal just sort of hung
| > there. I connected through another terminal and noticed that fsck was
| > running.
| 
| Did you have a look at /var/log/messages and dmesg? Since it's not a 
| boot partition, it sort of makes sence to boot and then fsck the 
| corrupt filesystems.

Indeed. If I were a brighter individual, I would have checked the logs
before posting my question. It seems that the fsck is being initiated _by_
autofs. Empirical evidence suggests that every time I try to access the
mountpoint, an fsck process is spawned (if one isnt currently running).  

Now on to the logs. I found the following repeated multiple times in the logs:

kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, 
             LBAsect=470548553, high=28, low=786505, sector=470548480
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 470548480

After a bit of googling it appears this is either a drive failure or a bad
cable. Since the drive and cable are both new, either is possible. There
isn't really any data on the disk, so it's not an "imminent threat" so to
say ;). Can anyone else suggest any other causes? I suppose I should say
that I have an identical system (mb, cable, hd, OS, etc.) That doesn't
display these problems. 

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