[Soekris] CompactFlash Card I/O error

[Ted Phelps]

Hi,

"Roberto Jose Roque Paz" writes:
>     I'm running several net4501 with Debian based Linux distribution. I'm
> using 256 Mb Sandisk CompactFlash Card, mounted read-only. I'm using ext2
> filesystem, devfsd, and linux kernel version 2.6.11.11. After certain amoun=
> t
> of time soekris is up (15 minutes, or a few hours, o maybe a few days), y
> see this entries in syslog file:
> 
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 120330
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 120330
> Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 120330

It looks like you have a bad sectors on your CF card.

If you are in a position to rebuild the contents of the filesystem, you
could use badblocks to locate the blocks which correspond to the bad
sector and pass that to mke2fs to tell it not to use those sectors.

Cheers,
-Ted