Hard disk error

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> 2008/4/27 Paras pradhan <pradhanparas at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> From few weeks, sometimes (4 to 5 times a day) my ubunty gusty system
>> doesnot responds to anything and have to wait a minute or two to use the
>> system normally. I check the log. Below is my output of dmesg
>>
>>  What should I do now?
> 
> It sounds to me like your hard disk drive is failing. Back up any
> important data, get a new one and be ready to replace it as soon as it
> dies.
> 
Liam's partly right - I've never seen this sort of error unless the drive is
failing.  I just don't agree that you should "get a new one and be ready to
replace it" - I'd get a new one and replace it right away!  If your system
can support two drives, you might keep the failing one for non-important
storage.  I've found some of these drives to be fairly reliable once you
take things like swap off them, but I would never again trust it with
anything important.
-- 
derek