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Quoting Edmund Goppelt <webmaster@hallwatch.org>:
> 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
Jeff:
In addition to these fine suggestions I'd recommend that you pay real close
attention to the temperature reading you get from the smartmon utility. I
dropped the temperature of my hard drive by more than 5 degrees celsius simply
by leaving the side off of the case. Overheating is the single biggest factor
in early disk drive failure.
Eric
--
- Eric Lucas
- When I was a kid my parents moved a lot...
- but I always managed to find them.
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