[PLUG] ext3 and fsck

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

A crash caused me to have to fsck a ext3 partition.  At least, I think
that's what happened.  This is a pretty new disk, about a month old.
But the boot errors when running fsck look like this:

    hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
    sector=174587983
    end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
    Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960
    hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
    sector=174587983
    end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
    Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960
    hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
    hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
    sector=174587983
    end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
    Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960

The boot log also shows the following:

    EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
    EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal


But then mount was willing to mount the partition anyway.  Weird.

I'm thinking I'm going to copy off what I can before doing more.  But
I'd really like to know what's going on.

Any thoughts?  I've had three disks in the past year "fail" with this
sort of error.  The last two I was willing to believe the disks had
died, but this one is too new and the pattern too established.

-- 
 Jeff

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