[wplug] fsck running in background?

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 16:27, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in September Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard 
and produced:
<snip>
> 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. 

It shouldn't be tough to rule out the cable :-]

> 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?
<snip>

I've seen such messages that vanished when I changed the IO/DMA settings 
with hdparm. Also, I'd run /sbin/badblocks on the device in any case.

-A