disks...

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

A couple of weeks ago, 'smart' sent me:

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/hdb, not capable of SMART self-check

and in /var/log/messages for that time I see (exc iptables info):

Jul 30 05:13:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:14:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:15:10 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:15:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:16:17 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x1e timed out
Jul 30 05:17:17 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
{a few more lost interrupt / timed out messages...}
Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:45:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:46:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jul 30 05:47:43 ratty kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hda: lost interrupt
Jul 30 05:48:43 ratty kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }


I also note that on 23 & on 25 Jul (ie a week earlier) the machine had
frozen over night so I had to do a hard reboot (pull the kettle lead
out)

I didn't reboot on 30 Jul but did earlier tonight and the machine failed
to boot - /dev/hdb not being 'found' by the BIOS (I think). I rebooted
went into BIOS & all disks were present so continued to reboot but just
now got another SMART warning (same as above "Device: /dev/hdb, not
capable of SMART self-check") and if I try and cd/ls a partition on the
device it just hangs.

michael@ratty:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdb
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     [No Information Found]
Serial Number:    [No Information Found]
Firmware Version: [No Information Found]
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   1
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Thu Aug 14 19:49:28 2008 BST
SMART is only available in ATA Version 3 Revision 3 or greater.
We will try to proceed in spite of this.
SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show
if SMART supported.
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
'-T permissive' options.

and I'm not sure what that means.

I'll welcome advice on whether it's the HDD about to die or whether the
interrupt/timed out messages indicate something else?

This is on box with
michael@ratty:~$ uname -a
Linux ratty.xxxxx.ac.uk 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 17 21:31:27 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux

Mega thanks, M