[plug] Hard Drive Woes

[John Darrington]

Yesterday I acquired a second hard disk for my machine.  Installed it formated it mounted it 
no problem.

Today, still no problem with that drive.  However the ( previously reliable ) first drive has
thrown up lots of errors:

Jul 29 06:40:48 kassandra kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jul 29 06:40:48 kassandra kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1583340, sector=1049100
Jul 29 06:40:48 kassandra kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1049100
Jul 29 06:40:48 kassandra kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03): ext2_readdir: directory #130561 contains a hole at offset 0
Jul 29 06:40:49 kassandra kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jul 29 06:40:49 kassandra kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1583340, sector=1049100
Jul 29 06:40:49 kassandra kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1049100


fsck can't fix them.

I seem to remember that I had similar problems last time I tried to but a second IDE on
the machine.  I ended up having to scrap the drive.  What's going on?