3 errors (at least) in hoary-rc installation

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Apr 2, 2005 5:43 AM, Xan <DXpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> > This usually means that your hard drive is failing. It likely has
> > nothing to do with the new version you're installing, and the errors
> > you are seeing are related to the hdd failures.
> >
> > Regards,
> 
> But, before installed rc, I installed array-6 and all was fine!. It did not
> give me any error. Once I installed the rc, ubuntu gets me that error.
> 
> For the other hand, I have debian installed in other partition, and it does
> not give me any erro of that.
> 
> So I deduced that it's a problem of ubuntu.

Well, it only occurs when a bad sector on the HDD is being read, so
debian on another partition will not report the problem because it
doesn't access that sector. The same with the previous installation --
the system might not have had a reason to access the bad bits, so it
never reported it (or you may have never seen it, because it's only
reported to the logs). Of course, you may be right and it's just a
combination of the kernel in Ubuntu and your IDE controller, but
seeing as Ubuntu is unlikely to have any additional patches for
something as lowlevel as that, and that hard drive is the most common
component to frequently fail in computers, I would say that the
problem probably lies within your HDD.

Test it with another -- see if you get the problem to reoccur.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Zlotniks, INC