Bleh…
Well… I’m learning to loathe this message:
The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and data on it. If you don’t want to follow that follow that advice then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs utils to handle this block correctly.
Even though I’ve had success with copying everything on my mp3 drive (YAY!!) thus far the first of the two 40GB drives is still failing, but, ehhh… thankfully they are not nearly as important.
Later… The second drive 40GB drive exhibits the same errors as the first 40GB drive, bleh, I can’t really remember what was on them though, so I guess they are not so important. I mean, I know they held the backups of the mp3s, so that’s unnecessary at this point, but… what else did they store? Oh well…