Re: Is my hard drive dying?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -0000, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen
> a lot of these types of messages:
>
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda),
> sector 63232
>
> Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine
> till now.
I'd tend to say yes - get your backups done now!
Can you tell from the logs if there was a hard start date, or did
the errors just start to trickle in? How often are they occuring?
jc
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