Eric Hidle on 1 Jul 2005 10:59:34 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] advice on kernel errors?


The last time I saw seek complete errors on a drive, it failed completely
not long thereafter. That is but one datapoint though, so I am not sure how
helpful that is.

Do you have smartd running? If your drive supports SMART, you can get a
plethora of information there that might help as well..
E


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Abrahamson" <jeff@purple.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: [PLUG] advice on kernel errors?


> Tuesday morning I started getting errors that look like these in
> kern.log.  The disk hdb has one partition, /home/.  The volume is
> formatted ext3.
>
>   Jun 27 07:53:03 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
>   Jun 27 07:53:03 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=260867239, high=15, low=9208999, s
>   ector=260867239
>   Jun 27 07:53:03 asterix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector
260867239
>   Jun 27 07:53:04 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
>   Jun 27 07:53:04 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=260867239, high=15, low=9208999, s
>   ector=260867239
>   Jun 27 07:53:04 asterix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector
260867239
>
> It's possible that this is related to a power failure.  On reboot,
> dmesg didn't report any problems besides fsck'ing the drives.  A few
> days later, the kernel remounted /home/ read-only.  Checking the logs,
> there had been occasional errors for a couple days.  I'm not sure
> exactly what the time sequence was.
>
> I'm keenly aware that a previous drive failed on hdb last Fall.  (This
> drive is a new replacement.)  The errors at that time were similar.
>
> I'm curious what others think.  Is umount, fsck, and mount likely to
> help?  Or does this look like hardware failure?  Can I trust the IDE
> controller, given that another drive failed on it eight months ago?
>
> What I want to avoid is buying a new drive if the most likely outcome
> is a similar failure in half a year.
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
>
> -- 
>  Jeff
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