Re: Hard disk dying?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Sam wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I noticed this in dmesg the other day
> >
> > hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> > ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> >
> > and i have started to get corrupted data off of it. I assume it is dying, 
> > but thought to ask, as its rather new ( Power On Hours 827) its a maxtor 
> > 160gb.
>
> Time to file a warranty claim, I'm guessing.  Maxtor has their own test 
> utility, which you might as well download because they'll want an error code 
> from it before they do an exchange.

Use smartctl:

smartctl -a /dev/hda

What does this show?