On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:39:46PM -0600, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > > I keep getting hard drive errors in my kernel log/dmesg that have me > worried. From /var/log/kernel/current: > > Jan 13 11:42:31 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete > DataRequest Error } > - Last output repeated 7 times - > Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, > LBAsect=206696214, high=12, low=5369622, sector=206695927 > Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] ide: failed opcode was: unknown > Jan 13 11:42:40 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete > DataRequest Error } >
Do you run SMARTD? If you do, did it complain? (grep SMART /var/log/everything/*) Usually UncorrectablError means that some spots on your harddrive is not readable. And if it keeps complaining, it might be a sign that something is wrong with your drive. (Of course, it could also be flaky connectors.) Maybe you can take a look at http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/troubleshooting/index.htm A lot of times you get one or two bad sectors due to environmental issues: power blip for one, and my roommate slamming the door too hard on his way out for another. If that is the case, most harddrive vendors provide a diagnostic tool that allows you to map that couple sectors to one of the backup ones on the disk. (Yes, they have a few extra on the harddrive just for that purpose). > > The drive is a 160 GB PATA Samsung. It's about two or three years > old, running 24x7 (although lightly). The drive has three > partitions, all are ext3. <snip> > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) > LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 00% 11486 > 262886799 > # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11483 - W -- Statistics are like a Bikini: showing interesting details but hiding the important stuff. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 62 days, 14:29 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list