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On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:36:50PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> A crash caused me to have to fsck a ext3 partition. At least, I think
> that's what happened. This is a pretty new disk, about a month old.
> But the boot errors when running fsck look like this:
>
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
> sector=174587983
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
> Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
> sector=174587983
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
> Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960
> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=174587984, high=10, low=6815824,
> sector=174587983
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 174587983
> Buffer I/O error on device hdb1, logical block 87293960
This sure looks like a bad drive to me, but if you're skeptical I have
two suggestions:
1. Install smartmontools and do a short self-test. If the drive is
truly hosed, the drive will almost certainly fail spectacularly.
2. Install the drive in another box, and see if you get the same
errors.
> Any thoughts? I've had three disks in the past year "fail" with this
> sort of error. The last two I was willing to believe the disks had
> died, but this one is too new and the pattern too established.
The fact that this happened before means nothing, IMO. In my
experience, drives fail all the time, esp. out of the box. Two Maxtor
120's I ordered from a well-known vendor both turned out to be bad
(perhaps UPS was playing roller hockey with my package). I've seen
other examples, as well. For this reason I start monitoring drives as
soon as they're installed.
Where did you buy the drives? Are they OEM or retail packages? Are
the drives new or remanufactured? Who is the manufacturer?
--
Ed Goppelt
http://www.hallwatch.org
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