Re: Is my hard drive dying?
> > 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 ??
I don't think I've changed anything :(
> -- if you changed the kernel ... make sure yur kernel supports the
> motherboard ( ide chipset )
Nope, been running with this kernel for months.
> -- did you add a new disk somewhere ??
> - use only one ide drive per cable if you're having these problems
Nope - and the drive I'm using is rather old :( It's a rather old machine.
> -- check your ide cables for kinks and corners and places where it touches
> metal
I haven't opened the box recently, but I'll check anyway.
> -- is it ext2 or ext3 ??
> - does (e2fsck) ext2 come out clean
ext2 and the first time I ran e2fsck it didn't come out clean. The
subsequent runs did.
> -- make sure your IDE cables is secure and is 80 conductor ( not
> fatter looking 40-conductor cables )
See above
> -- if the disks has been running for a while..
> - what changed
Not a lot. The machine doesn't get rebooted very often
> - 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..
Because the machine isn't very busy it doesn't get backed up very often,
but I'll have a look at the the backups too.
> - when you restore the data, you might be restoring the
> original bad-disk-symptom vs the disk problem itself
Not much data to restore, only a small amount of data from a MySQL
database, which is emailed to me every day.
I was looking for a reason (other than the sheer hell of it) for rebuilding
this box - I guess I just found it!
Cheers everyone,
Andrew
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