On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > I have what may be an IBM problem masquerading as a HW problem. I have a > box with an IBM 20 G HD (see subject) that claims to have bad sectors > galore under M$ Win 98. I need M$ on this for my son's flight simulation > programs. > > When I try to configure the BIOS hard, it claims problems under both the > RH FC3 install and the M$ install with sectors beyond reach. When I make > it Auto/Auto, M$ chokes at 17% formatted with a disk chucking sound. FC3 > is now installing on auto, and seems to be having no problems. > > Any ideas on what gives? Obviously I can't discount the possibility of > disk failure, but it being IBM, are there jumper settings I don't know > about? BIOS settings? > > somebody just shoot me ... spending all my time on the wrong problems >
Here is the output of smartctl on that drive. To my untrained eye, the disk looks fine, although a little long in the tooth (I buy refurbs). smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: IBM-DTLA-307020 Serial Number: YHDYHLJ3596 Firmware Version: TX3OA50C User Capacity: 20,576,747,520 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 5 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1 Local Time is: Sun Feb 13 11:53:25 2005 PST ==> WARNING: IBM Deskstar 40GV and 75GXP drives may need upgraded SMART firmware. Please see http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/ and http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-42215 or http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-42215 SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (1496) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. No Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 14) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 131 131 024 Pre-fail Always - 202 (Average 133) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 916 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 14 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1655 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 475 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 050 Old_age Always - 916 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 050 Old_age Always - 916 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 183 183 000 Old_age Always - 30 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 59 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 983 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 983 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1654 hours (68 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 04 e8 09 6d e0 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x006d09e8 = 7145960 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 0f dd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:49.000 READ DMA c6 00 10 00 00 00 ef 00 00:26:49.000 SET MULTIPLE MODE 91 00 3f 00 00 00 af 00 00:26:49.000 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6] 10 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:26:48.900 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] c8 00 01 01 00 00 a0 04 00:26:48.900 READ DMA Error 982 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1654 hours (68 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 04 e8 09 6d e0 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x006d09e8 = 7145960 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 0f dd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:38.800 READ DMA c6 00 10 00 00 00 ef 00 00:26:38.800 SET MULTIPLE MODE 91 00 3f 00 00 00 af 00 00:26:38.800 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6] 10 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:26:38.800 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] c8 00 01 01 00 00 a0 04 00:26:38.800 READ DMA Error 981 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1654 hours (68 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 04 e8 09 6d e0 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x006d09e8 = 7145960 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 0f dd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:28.700 READ DMA c6 00 10 00 00 00 ef 00 00:26:28.700 SET MULTIPLE MODE 91 00 3f 00 00 00 af 00 00:26:28.700 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6] 10 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:26:28.700 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] c8 00 01 01 00 00 a0 04 00:26:28.700 READ DMA Error 980 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1654 hours (68 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 04 e8 09 6d e0 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x006d09e8 = 7145960 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 0f dd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:18.600 READ DMA c6 00 10 00 00 00 ef 00 00:26:18.600 SET MULTIPLE MODE 91 00 3f 00 00 00 af 00 00:26:18.600 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6] 10 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00:26:18.600 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4] c8 00 01 01 00 00 a0 04 00:26:18.600 READ DMA Error 979 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1654 hours (68 days + 22 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 04 e8 09 6d e0 Error: UNC 4 sectors at LBA = 0x006d09e8 = 7145960 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 0f dd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:08.500 READ DMA c8 00 20 bd 09 6d e0 00 00:26:08.500 READ DMA c8 00 10 ad 09 6d e0 00 00:26:08.500 READ DMA c6 00 10 00 00 00 ef 00 00:26:08.500 SET MULTIPLE MODE 91 00 3f 00 00 00 af 00 00:26:08.500 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6] SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
