Help! DriveReady SeekComplete Error

Thu Feb 6 14:22:38 PST 2003

Greetings!

On my thinkpad laptop (running SuSE linux), I observe:

  $ cat /var/log/messages > /dev/null
  cat: /var/log/messages: Input/output error

And at the end of /var/log/messages, I see:

Feb  6 11:07:03 tomkagai kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCom
plete Error }
Feb  6 11:07:03 tomkagai kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError 
}, LBAsect=11431971, sector=4295264
Feb  6 11:07:03 tomkagai kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector
 4295264

/var/log is in the root filesystem, which is a reiserfs filesystem. 
But the errors make me think its a hardware problem, not a filesystem
problem.  But I can get a shell from the installation CD, mount /
and run reiserfsck if folks think it'll help.

Repeated attempts to access the entire messages file result in the
same sector (4295264) being indicated in the error messages each time.

Help!  What are my options?  This is a critical machine.

Here are some (what I think might be) relevant lines from dmesg output:

  PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
  PIIX4: chipset revision 1
  PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
      ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1c10-0x1c17, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
      ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1c18-0x1c1f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
  hda: HITACHI_DK23AA-12B, ATA DISK drive

  hda: 23572080 sectors (12069 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1559/240/63, UDMA(33)

Thanks!
David
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