These are disk read errors.
> EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a
> hole at offset 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 4160
> EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a
> hole at offset 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 4160
> EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a
> hole at offset 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 4160
> EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,1)): ext3_readdir: directory #2 contains a
> hole at offset 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc), sector 4160
These are errors because you didn't read anything from the disk. "hole at
offset 0 for directory #2" means it could not read _anything_ from the
disk for the root directory. The disk is totally dead it looks like.
Cheers, Andreas
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