Hi, I can answer the first part at least: The message means that there was a problem reading data from a sector of your hard drive. It could be that there is a bad block on the drive surface or that the drive electronics have a problem. One way to check (and try to resolve) this is to do a full backup of your system and reformat the drive with the check for bad blocks option enabled. That check should map out the bad blocks and you can then do a full restore of your backup. This isn't the best solution and other people may correct me on this. The second problem I am not sure on. Tom. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Maryniak" To: Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 11:22 AM Subject: [SLE] Kernel errs?: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

Hello list,

While doing a system wide grep (find / -type -f -print|xargs grep -il something /dev/null) these errors (?) popped up in /var/log/warn:

Oct 7 18:13:05 myhost kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

and in /var/log/messages:

Oct 7 18:13:05 myhost kernel: grep uses obsolete /proc/pci interface

Is reading from /proc/pci by a "user" program (such as grep) apparently that harmful (kernel did not crash or anything)? Could there be data corruption when you ignorantly read from a /proc device?

Bye-bye,

Eric -- Eric Maryniak Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/

Who is General Failure & why is he reading my disk drive ?

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