Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: configured for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: {

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-05-29 10:08]: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:16:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, I tried these kernels (all vanilla): 2.6.32.13 2.6.33.5 2.6.34.0 So it's not a known problem that has been fixed. Just a wild guess... can you try recompiling the kernel *without* pata_via? Some people have reported having problems with sata drives on VIA controllers when pata_via is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:16:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 29 Mai 2010, Andrea Conti wrote: ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in res

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-28 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-29 03:21]: On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 I know nothing about the new large-sector disks, but the line above makes me worried that the disk driver doesn't know any more than I do :) Anyone know if that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Stroller
On 27 May 2010, at 01:19, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? If you have copied from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb then `md5sum /dev/sda / dev/sdb` will compare both drives. You're probably safest to compare a partition at a time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Andrea Conti
I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the smart attributes (smartctl -A, esp. the reallocated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread meino . cramer
Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net [10-05-27 17:20]: I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-05-26 17:19]: On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors). [...] dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=8192

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [10-05-26 17:19]: On 2010-05-26, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [...] I have two WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 (pasted from hdparm -i) harddisk (1TB, advanced format 4096 kb sectors).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are only SATA1... is it this, which cause the problems? usually it shouldn't. It has done for me in the past. SATA2 drives usually have a jumper to switch them to SATA1. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 Mai 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:59:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: May be: The WD-harddiscs are SATA2 my controllers are only SATA1... is it this, which cause the problems? usually it shouldn't. It has done for me in the past. SATA2 drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-05-27 02:04]: On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:06 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: that is why I used 'usually' and 'shouldn't'. Have you considered a career in politics? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. Oh,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread meino . cramer
walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-27 04:08]: On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you don't already have it, and read the manpage for smartctl. I add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 04:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com [10-05-27 04:08]: On 05/26/2010 05:19 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to check the disk without damaging its contents? Do you know about SMART? Install sys-apps/smartmontools if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:52 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: So something like SMART is the only way for the average Joe to get the health of a drive. Google has lots on this sort of thing That sentence is correct in more than one way! Google the generic term for any web page found via searching