Re: is this hard disk failure?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

surreal <firewalrus@gmail.com> writes:

>>From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on starting the computer..
>
> I typed dmesg and found these messages
>
> [  304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> [  304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
> [  304.694954] ata4: soft resetting link
> [  304.938280] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
> [  304.938293] ata4: EH complete
> [  304.970866] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
> [  304.970873] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x26
> [  304.970884] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:38:f6:2a:94/00:00:15:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 28672 in
> [  304.970887]          res 51/84:18:16:2b:94/84:00:15:00:00/e0 Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
>
> What do these messages mean? What is the solution to prevent these messages from appearing? Help!

This doesn´t look like the usual hardware error from a broken hard disk:
When a disk is broken, you usually get messages about sector errors.

I would check all the connections (power and SATA) and try new
cables. If the problem doesn´t go away, it can be anything, like the
firmware of the drive, a problem with your mainboard, a problem with
your power supply: Backup the data, replace the drive and see if the new
one also shows errors like the above.