localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Hi all,
I was experiencing strange desktop problems ; I did not realise that my
partition had been remounted read-only because of errors. After reboot,
I am unable to fsck the partition and have the following errors:
Aug 27 12:08:19 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Aug 27 12:08:19 localhost kernel: ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x0)
Aug 27 12:08:19 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc8 Emask 0x9 stat 0x51 err 0x40 (media error)
Aug 27 12:08:19 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete
I have rebooted on an Ubuntu live CD, and after mounting the partition,
I get the following error while browsing the directory tree:
Aug 28 02:52:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 498.947455] ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 28 02:52:47 ubuntu kernel: [ 498.947461] ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
Aug 28 02:52:53 ubuntu kernel: [ 505.091286] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
I am wondering it my hard drive is dying or if it is another hardware
problem... Google found me the followign bug report in which Sven Luther
(CCed) experienced a similar error, in which the key sentences seem to
be: "The disk is ok" and "I finally traced this bug to some strange
hardware defect".
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414580
Sven, can you tell me more about the hardware error you experienced ?
Can anybody confirm that these errors are not saying that the drive is
dying ?
Bonus question : if necessary, can I plug the disk on a i386 machine and
run ddrescue on it?
The hard drive was used with a Debian Etch install with security
updates.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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