Re: What does this mean?

In article <1151407598.866596.19140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Leigh" <LGBowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The disk wouldn't respond for
about 20 seconds report this error and then allow access. I did fsck -c
-c on it as well and this took about 18 hours and whilst running no
messages were produced.

fsck is for checking filesystem integrity, it's quite likely to miss bad
sectors on the disk.

To do a crude check for bad sectors, try this:

dd if=/dev/whatever of=/dev/null
.

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