Re: Is my hard drive dying?

[Matthew Daubenspeck <matt@oddprocess.org>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Andrew Pritchard said:
> > 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 have also found that this happens when you are not using the proper
IDE kernel driver...