Re: Is my hard drive dying?
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, 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.
not necessarily...
=== What did you CHANGE ??
-- if you changed the kernel ... make sure yur kernel supports the
motherboard ( ide chipset )
-- did you add a new disk somewhere ??
- use only one ide drive per cable if you're having these problems
-- check your ide cables for kinks and corners and places where it touches
metal
-- is it ext2 or ext3 ??
- does (e2fsck) ext2 come out clean
-- make sure your IDE cables is secure and is 80 conductor ( not
fatter looking 40-conductor cables )
-- if the disks has been running for a while..
- what changed
- when you make backups ... use a DIFFERENT media for backups
when you already suspect a bad disk... as your good backup
will be overwritten by bad data..
- when you restore the data, you might be restoring the
original bad-disk-symptom vs the disk problem itself
-- if its a brand new disks..
- you could have a bad disk
- or lots of possible reasons
-- few other stuff to do before tossing the disks..
-- move the disk to a different box... does it show the same symptom
( and if it did... the disk might be bad ...
c ya
alvin
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