Errors in Logfile

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Mon Apr 20 11:06:08 UTC 2009


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:26:46 +0100
James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm getting these errors in my log and was wondering how I should go
> about fixing and diagnosing the fault? According to Google it could be a
> drive fault, I've an IDE dvd-rom in there and a SATA hard-drive at the
> moment. If it's the DVD, I'm not that bothered, but if it's the Hard
> drive...eek!

sr[number] is the DVD. A medium error is an error on the device media so
its almost certainly complaining about a block on the actual DVD inserted
into the machine not the drive.




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