[ale] I/O Errors?

[jenn at colormaria.com]

Aler's:

Is there anything other than hardware that can cause the following log
entries?  I've had problems with the disks on this machine since bringing it
online...it's crashed twice in 3 months and refused to reboot without
extensive fscking. It's a mail server so has many open files at all times,
which would explain the file system corruption in an unexpected shutdown.
...but I get enough of these messages to make me very nervous.  They seem to
occur either when my logs rotate, or when Cyrus purges its deliver-db, but
not consistantly during either of these actions.  Anyone have any ideas?

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Dec  2 04:02:21 artemis kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Dec  2 04:02:21 artemis kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=57914550, sector=44564535
Dec  2 04:02:21 artemis kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda),
sector 44564535
Dec  2 04:02:21 artemis kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): 
ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=2785281, block=5570566
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TIA,

Jenn


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