Ken,<br><br>If you&#39;re getting &quot;IO failure&quot;, then you&#39;ve quite likely got a bad hard drive...<br><br>I&#39;d load the smart tools and test the disk to see if it&#39;s got bad sectors.<br><br>Here&#39;s a like to Western Digitals website for your drive.  They&#39;ve got some tools you can download to test the drive as well.<br>
<a href="http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modelno=WD1600AAJB&amp;x=11&amp;y=10">http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modelno=WD1600AAJB&amp;x=11&amp;y=10</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>Tim.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ken Jones <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kjones@ziplink.net">kjones@ziplink.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thank you, Chuck.  Lot&#39;s more information here.  Suggestions?<br>
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[root@pacman mnt]# dmesg | grep hdb<br>
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA<br>
hdb: WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3A0, ATA DISK drive<br>
hdb: max request size: 512KiB<br>
hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,<br>
UDMA(66)<br>
hdb: cache flushes supported<br>
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2<br>
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal<br>
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb1, type ext3), uses xattr<br>
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_update_dynamic_rev: updating to rev<br>
1 because of new feature flag, running e2fsck is recommended<br>
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal<br>
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_new_inode: reserved inode or inode &gt;<br>
inodes count - block_group = 0, inode=1<br>
Aborting journal on device hdb2.<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_create: IO failure<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted<br>
journal<br>
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error<br>
recorded from previous mount: IO failure<br>
EXT3-fs warning (device hdb2): ext3_clear_journal_err: Marking fs in<br>
need of filesystem check.<br>
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal<br>
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr<br>
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal<br>
SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type ext3), uses xattr<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_new_inode: reserved inode or inode &gt;<br>
inodes count - block_group = 0, inode=2<br>
Aborting journal on device hdb2.<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2) in ext3_create: IO failure<br>
EXT3-fs error (device hdb2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted<br>
journal<br>
[root@pacman mnt]#<br>
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