Re: Please help with some harddisk error

["Gary L. Dolan" <fred1@inetnebr.com>]

Quoting Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <jmmv@mail.com>:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:21:35PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 	I am getting some harddisk errors on one of our production
> > 	servers. We also have the same hardware for two other
> > 	servers(web/proxy) running 2.0.36/hamm with no problems.
>                      * * * *
> > Errors:
> > 	hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 	hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431,
> sector=34368
> > 	end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 34368
> > 	hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 	hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431,
> sector=34368
> > 	end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 34368
> > 	hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 	hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=34431,
> sector=34368
> > 	end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 34368
> > 	hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 	hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=279631,
> sector=279568
> > 	end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 279568
> > 
> > 	We are gettting thounsands of these messages. However, the
> > 	server still runs ok, but some files are damaged randomly.
> 
> I'm afraid this is a phisical disk error. I got this kind of errors on
> a disk I had and it was really bad... It worked but sometimes
> corrupted files because of wrong sectors.
__________________________________________________________
    I had similar errors on a drive that got corrupted from a
power interruption. I had to reinstall, but it worked fine after that.


Gary
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