michael:
> 'tiger' just told me various home directories are unavailable and upon
> further investigation I see disk errors. Here's the first reports I can
> find regarding said hard drive:
>
> Nov 13 02:23:01 ratty /USR/SBIN/CRON[19292]: (michael) CMD (rsync -r -v
> -P --links --stats /data_hdb1/michael/ /data_hdd1/michael/)
> Nov 13 02:27:32 ratty kernel: hdd: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
> Nov 13 02:27:47 ratty kernel: hdd: DMA timeout error
> Nov 13 02:27:47 ratty kernel: hdd: dma timeout error: status=0x58
> { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
If I were you, I would assume it is dead. Try to copy everything you
still can get off the disk, use your backup for the rest.
If you are curious, you may use smartctl from the package smartmontools
to do further investigation. Your hard disk's manufacturer probably
offers diagnostic tools as well.
> Does anybody have ideas if this means the HD has actually died or not?
It's most probably dead.
J.
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