Drive errors

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Mark Fraser wrote:

> On Friday 17 October 2008 22:16:44 Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> Mark Fraser wrote:
> 
>> > Emanoil, I haven't run badblocks yet, but I loaded up a live CD this
>> > morning and ran fsck.ext3 which didn't find anything wrong.
>> >
>> > Also, I have done a backup of the majority of the drive, but if I was
>> > to copy everything to a new drive how do I make a bootable partition?
>>
>> fsck checks the file system not the drive integrity
> 
> Ran badblocks this morning and it completed without errors. Will see if I
> get any more errors in the logs today and then I'll have to use another
> drive.
> 

If the drive is ok, then it might be another issue. You can check what
chipset you have and google about issues with your specific chipset, or may
be with your specific drive model.

May be contact the kernel people, who will tell you to install the recent
kernel and try again.

regards