Buffer I/O Error... Need Help!

[Phillip Susi]

Once a head crashes, it tends to continue causing damage to the disk. 
If you have managed to recover most of your data, you should back it up 
and replace the hard drive, because odds are good that more sectors will 
fail.  At the very least you should back up your data daily and every 
few days run badblocks on the disk to see if any more bad sectors come up.

Hakim Singhji wrote:
> 
> Hooray! Mandeep you are brilliant... I was told by many people that I
> would not be able to recover from this. Your advice proved everyone
> wrong. It took a while however...
> 
> I installed a live cd knoppix then I ran e2fsck and 7% of /dev/hda9 was
> deemed unusable but I can live with that! I may bring the box back to
> IBM later but now there is no rush, thanks!
> 
> Best
> - --
> Hakim Singhji
> New York University
> 
> Yeah, there are more important things in life than money, but they won't go
> out with you if you don't have any.
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