Re: disks...

[Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com>]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 21:58, michael wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, 'smart' sent me:
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
> Device: /dev/hdb, not capable of SMART self-check
>
> and in /var/log/messages for that time I see (exc iptables info):
>
> Jul 30 05:13:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
> Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
> Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:15:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x1e timed out
> Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> {a few more lost interrupt / timed out messages...}
> Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
> Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
> Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
>
>
> I also note that on 23 & on 25 Jul (ie a week earlier) the machine had
> frozen over night so I had to do a hard reboot (pull the kettle lead
> out)
>
> I didn't reboot on 30 Jul but did earlier tonight and the machine failed
> to boot - /dev/hdb not being 'found' by the BIOS (I think). I rebooted
> went into BIOS & all disks were present so continued to reboot but just
> now got another SMART warning (same as above "Device: /dev/hdb, not
> capable of SMART self-check") and if I try and cd/ls a partition on the
> device it just hangs.
>
> michael@ratty:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdb
> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     [No Information Found]
> Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
> Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
> Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
> ATA Version is:   1
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:    Thu Aug 14 19:49:28 2008 BST
> SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
> We will try to proceed in spite of this.
> SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show
> if SMART supported.
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
> '-T permissive' options.
>
> and I'm not sure what that means.
>
> I'll welcome advice on whether it's the HDD about to die or whether the
> interrupt/timed out messages indicate something else?

I'd attach this disk to another machine and test it there. Perhaps I'd try a 
live CD first.
>
> This is on box with
> michael@ratty:~$ uname -a
> Linux ratty.xxxxx.ac.uk 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 21:31:27 UTC 2008
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Mega thanks, M

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