Re: [OT] Faulty hard drive?
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:04:13PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
> Last week I suffered something that was probably a hard drive
> crash. I do extensive nightly backups so very little data was lost,
> but the reinstallation on this sub notebook (no floppy, no cdrom) was
> rather laborious.
>
> During the reinstallation messages like these where spewed to the
> console:
> ##################################################################
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 2792604
> ##################################################################
[cjwatson@arborlon ~]$ fortune -m MessagesLikeThis
(knghtbrd)
%
<Overfiend> Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive }
<Overfiend> Thunder-: it either means { TheDriverIsScrewy }
<Overfiend> or
<Overfiend> { YourDriveIsFlakingOut BackUpYourDataBeforeIt'sTooLate
PrayToGod }
%
Judging from what you've described I have a nasty feeling it's probably
the latter, so a new drive might very well be a good idea.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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