Ken,

If you're getting "IO failure", then you've quite likely got a bad hard drive...

I'd load the smart tools and test the disk to see if it's got bad sectors.

Here's a like to Western Digitals website for your drive.  They've got some tools you can download to test the drive as well.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modelno=WD1600AAJB&x=11&y=10

Thanks,
Tim.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken Jones <kjones@ziplink.net> wrote:
Thank you, Chuck.  Lot's more information here.  Suggestions?

[root@pacman mnt]# dmesg | grep hdb
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3A0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: max request size: 512KiB
hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
UDMA(66)
hdb: cache flushes supported
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb1, type ext3), uses xattr
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_update_dynamic_rev: updating to rev
1 because of new feature flag, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_new_inode: reserved inode or inode >
inodes count - block_group = 0, inode=1
Aborting journal on device hdb2.
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_create: IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted
journal
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error
recorded from previous mount: IO failure
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_clear_journal_err: Marking fs in
need of filesystem check.
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_new_inode: reserved inode or inode >
inodes count - block_group = 0, inode=2
Aborting journal on device hdb2.
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_create: IO failure
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted
journal
[root@pacman mnt]#


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