HDD failing? :'(

["J. Javier Maestro" <jjmaestro@computer.org>]

Hi people,

I have been intensively using my HDD over the past few hours, mkisoing
some /tree onto the HDD and then burning it into DVDs (Superdrive).

After 2 DVDs or so, the process of mkisoing started going quite slow,
and the HDD was making a funny noise, as if it could not read properly
some sectors...

After a while, the mkisofs died, and I was locked, since an ls or any
other command woul give me an error, something like

bus error: cannot read /whatever/program

That was in X, inside an xterm. I switched to text-mode, and typed root
as login, and I got as an answer:

end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 39327464

and after a while,, the login timed out (I didn't type password, since I
was copying the error message by hand) and this came out:

end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816624
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816632
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816640
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816648
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816664
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816664
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 38816664

I rebooted in single mode, run an fsck.ext3, and got a clean answer.
After I booted clean, I checked the logs, and found:

as:~# grep -i error /var/log/syslog
Oct 13 13:47:41 nias kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 40 00
Oct 13 13:47:41 nias kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
Oct 13 20:26:53 nias kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

nias:~# grep -i error /var/log/kern.log
Oct 12 21:25:53 nias kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
Oct 12 21:25:53 nias kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0
Oct 13 13:47:41 nias kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 40 00
Oct 13 13:47:41 nias kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
Oct 13 20:26:53 nias kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

Note that my SCSI 0,0,0 is the superdrive...

This is the dmesg stuff relating the IDE (HDD and Superdrive):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2
ide1: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-3 controller, bus ID 0
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MHS2060AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 4
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-815A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2
ide0 at 0xf5313000-0xf5313007,0xf5313160 on irq 19
ide1 at 0xf5317000-0xf5317007,0xf5317160 on irq 20
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 117210240 sectors (60012 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
Partition check:
 hda:<7>ldm_validate_partition_table(): No MS-DOS partition table found.
 [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: DVD-R   UJ-815A   Rev: D101
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12


This is the second time that such a thing happened to me. The PowerBook
is brand new, I bought it in February. Can it be a broken HDD or
something?

Any ideas would be appreciated...

Thanks in advance!


-- 
J. Javier Maestro
<jjmaestro@computer.org>
http://rigel.homelinux.com