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