a possible HD problem?

[k3rn]

On Monday 22 May 2006 18:43, FTP wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently, when I tried to reboot my server, one partition didn't want to
> mount neither "fsck" was able to do any repairs. My "dmesg" contains a lot
> of entries with the following message:
>
> ---------------
> [4294708.872000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> [4294708.872000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 117178189
> [4294708.872000] Buffer I/O error on device dm-3, logical block 4
> [4294710.269000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
> } [4294710.269000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=11717 8191, sector=117178189
> ---------------
>
> does this mean that I should be heading for a new HD? Is this a hardware
> problem or a new format of the HD will solve it?
>
> Thanks

You should make backup as soon as possible.