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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:39:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover matthew.garman@×××××.com squawked: |
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> I keep getting hard drive errors in my kernel log/dmesg that have me |
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> worried. From /var/log/kernel/current: |
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> Jan 13 11:42:31 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } |
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> - Last output repeated 7 times - |
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> Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=206696214, high=12, low=5369622, sector=206695927 |
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> Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] ide: failed opcode was: unknown |
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> Jan 13 11:42:40 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } |
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Do you run SMARTD? If you do, did it complain? |
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(grep SMART /var/log/everything/*) |
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Usually UncorrectablError means that some spots on your harddrive is |
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not readable. And if it keeps complaining, it might be a sign that |
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something is wrong with your drive. (Of course, it could also be flaky |
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connectors.) |
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Maybe you can take a look at |
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http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/troubleshooting/index.htm |
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A lot of times you get one or two bad sectors due to environmental |
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issues: power blip for one, and my roommate slamming the door too hard |
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on his way out for another. If that is the case, most harddrive |
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vendors provide a diagnostic tool that allows you to map that couple |
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sectors to one of the backup ones on the disk. (Yes, they have a few |
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extra on the harddrive just for that purpose). |
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> The drive is a 160 GB PATA Samsung. It's about two or three years |
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> old, running 24x7 (although lightly). The drive has three |
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> partitions, all are ext3. |
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> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 |
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> Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error |
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> # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 00% 11486 262886799 |
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> # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11483 - |
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