my laptop sometimes stop responding with disk errors

[Jeff Lane]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:07, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I am seeing these errors. Do I need to start thinking about
> replacing the disk or can this be fixed. It is a 750G disk. I have
> used 67% of it. It is
> running ubuntu maverick Linux mylaptop 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu
> SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Yep... Probably time to start considering a new hard disk.

You can test the hard disk (or you SHOULD be able to) using SMART...

do this:

sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda

and see what that tells you about the health of your hard disk...

If you don't happen to have smartctl installed, you can install it like so:

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

Either way, you should start backing up your data NOW.