Re: Is my hard drive dying?

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

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.

You should probably disable IDE DMA (see hdparm) immediately.  If kernel
IDE problems are your problem, that should prevent additional corruption.

Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
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