Hi,
I am running FC5 on a Toshiba M35-S456 Laptop and during the first boot, and subsequent trial boots I got a Buffer I/O error from device /hda6, which corresponds to my ext3 /home partition. I went to the /var/log/messages file and extracted the following error messages:
Jun 4 04:39:13 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:13 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:13 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: ide0: reset: success
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:14 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide0: reset: success
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 156296185
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 5283344
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 4 04:39:15 rRNA kernel: hda: task_in_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=156296185, sector=156296185
Jun 4 04:39:16 rRNA kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
.... Several Times Same Thing ... until ...
Jun 4 04:39:21 rRNA kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 156296185
Jun 4 04:39:21 rRNA kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda6, logical block 5283344
Despite this error the system seems to be working just fine ... I would like to find out what this is about ... should I worry about it?
Thanx.