Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-10-31 12:24:00, Matthew Saltzman wrote: ... > It used to be fairly common for new disks to have a few bad > blocks--back in the dark days of early PCs when disk drive capacities > were measured in tens or low hundreds of megabytes. Then things > seemed to improve as manufacturing techniqu

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread William Case
Hi; On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 12:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res > > > 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Robert Nichols
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have a 1 Tbyte drive which has been reporting exactly 1 bad sector for at least the last 6 months. It always shows up on the gnome panel as the drive troubles applet (no name -- it doesn't identify itself), and every few days I check it. Always exactly 1 bad sector. I

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 12:24 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res > > > 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) > > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > >

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/2009 11:27 PM, Frederick Abrams wrote: > Hiya, > > Laptop Specs Attached (lshw) > > My PC was running perfect not a single error and then after i rebooted > the PC was working extemely slowly i checked /var/log/messages and i get > the below

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:39 +, Alan Cox wrote: > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res > > 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } > > That is t

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 > Emask 0x409 (media error) > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } That is the drive reporting a bad block yes. Whether it is a one off fail

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-30 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 08:40 +0400, Frederick Abrams wrote: > That really sux though as this is a new laptop only 3-4 months old. Is it difficult to make a warranty claim for you? Start the ball rolling... -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to m

Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-30 Thread Frederick Abrams
Thanks for reply. That really sux though as this is a new laptop only 3-4 months old. Fred On 10/31/2009 08:36 AM, Oliver Ransom wrote: On 31/10/2009, at 2:57 PM, Frederick Abrams wrote: Hiya, Laptop Specs Attached (lshw) My PC was running perfect not a single er

Is my Harddrive failing?

2009-10-30 Thread Frederick Abrams
Hiya, Laptop Specs Attached (lshw) My PC was running perfect not a single error and then after i rebooted the PC was working extemely slowly i checked /var/log/messages and i get the below output. Oct 31 08:05:02 merk kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Oct 31 08:05:02 merk kernel: ata1