Bug 207663

If you switch ttys, are there any errors?

Sorry, didn't even think about possibility of ttys behind X.

Errors start with these kind (this is the last -- rest were gone by the time I
had switched; numbers in angular brackets are approximate):

<6>ata2.00: tag 30 cmd 0x61 Emask 0x4 start 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout)
<4>ata2: softreset failed (1st FIS failed)

Then it said it would wait 5 seconds to retry, and was doing nothing for much
longer, so I switched to another tty, then back and saw screenfuls of these
messages, with the last one being:

<6> sd1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code=0x00040000
<4> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb sector 484197424

(all the same return code. The previous erroneous sector was 484196400)

On another tty (not exact text):

Format command:

/usr/sbin/mke2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 -i 4096 -j

And another:

Writing inode tables: done

ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
creating root directory

end_request: I/O error, dev sdb sector 484197424

that doesn't look too promising, and is suggestive (to me) to be a hardware
defect.  I'll let Jeff comment on the accuracy of that claim however.

So far it looks like problematic hardware.  Need much more dmesg output in order
to find out, though.

Check your cables, replace the drive, etc.

Shouldn't be a hardware problem. Windows XP formats partition (full format) as
NTFS with no problems. Another partition on the drive is also formatted and
operational (able to write and read via NTFS filesystem). Doubt if it is
problematic hardware, when Windows can handle it.

How can I get more dmesg output -- what tty, and how can I trap it?

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