Ablk engine error

[Francois Prowse]

Yes - I suspect I've got a bad disk - I'm hoping this isn't a permanant 
physical error on the disk :( 

Would it not be a possible idea to change the error message to be a little 
more descriptive:) I'll check the syslog - thanks!

re

Francois

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:33:13PM +1300, Francois Prowse wrote:
> > Hi again, I'm now getting the following error with MOL when booting my 
> > existing 10.2.8 disk. Ablk engine error... 
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > <*> Block Driver v1.1
> > Mounting MOL driver disk
> > + Video Driver v1.12
> > ablk iofunc: Input/output error
> > ABlk engine error
> 
> The read (or write) operation fails. If you check your syslog,
> I bet you will see ide/DMA problems or a bad harddisk. This is not
> a MOL problem but rather a hardware (or possibly a kernel) 
> problem.
> 
> Whenever a disk related problem like this occur, MOL will terminate
> all further disk activity (this is intentional).
> 
> /Samuel
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