You may notice that this blog and/or Beyond411 is periodically unavailable over the next few days.

Update, 11pm, 7/8/07 : Both Bogle’s Blog and Beyond411 are back up now. A total disk replacement and reinstall was necessary.

I’m getting hard read/write errors on the disk which affect one of the mysql table files used for autocompletions.

I fear the disk might be in the early stages of failing and I might need to migrate to a new disk and/or machine.

Here’s what the log files look like in case anyone is cleverer than I am at interpreting them; they don’t look pretty.

Jul 8 02:15:36 sp4507a kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hda3, logical block 748303
Jul 8 02:16:20 sp4507a kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0×51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul 8 02:16:20 sp4507a kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0×40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=19095468, high=1, low=2318252, sector=19095464
Jul 8 02:16:20 sp4507a kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jul 8 02:16:20 sp4507a kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 19095464

This faq suggests that it’s a hardware error (e.g. bad sector.)