On 2003-10-17, Matt. <matt_benvenuti_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:

> hdb: dma-intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma-intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect=2320860, sector
> 103872
> end_request: I/O error, dev 3:43 (hdb), sector 103872
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> FILE "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1603 in unmerge
> retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0], mysplit[1], portage.root,
> unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"])
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1960, in unmerge
> mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld)
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 4469, in unmerge
> mymd5=perform_md5(obj, calc_prelink=1)
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 1951, in perform_md5
> return perform_checksum(x,calc_prelink)[0]
> FILE "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/python.py" line 205, in
> perform_checksum
> return fchksum.fmd5t(filename)
> IOError; [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/usr/lib/libbfd-2.13.90.0.18.so'


Yep, your disk appears to be bad. You're going to want to run
'badblocks /dev/hdb' and see what it reports. It should return a list of
bad blocks.

If there are bad blocks, it's time to get a new disk.

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