Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive testing advice requested

[Kevin Hanson]

Alan wrote:

I just got a drive bumped out of one of my RAID5 arrays with the
following error:
hdf: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdf: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=70031146,
sector=28995464
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:44 (hdf), sector 28995464
I'd normally put it up to bad hardware or a dying drive as this is
usually the cause, but this is a brand new from the manufacture so I'm a
bit wary.  Also the drive that was on here before failed in a similar
fashion.  

I'm about to put gentoo on this box and I want to make sure that these
problems don't follow me.  Is there some way to test the drive?   

I was thinking that 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 
might do it, but any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

alan

 

There is an option in the kernel:

"Use multi-mode by default (IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE)

If you get this error, try to say Y here:

hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }"
Have you tried setting this and recompiling the kernel?

Cheers,
Kevin
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