Alex
My experience with IDE drives (both cheap and expensive) is when drive
errors show up, drive death is impending. I believe that IDE drives have
automatic "sparing" of bad blocks, so you don't see bad blocks until the
spares are used up. By then the surface is flaking off with your data.
I think you should back up all important data and replace the drive.
IDE drives, even BIG ones, are inexpensive right now.
There is a Linux program called badblocks that will identify and mark the
bad blocks. I have not had good luck using this on drives that have become
flaky. Drive manufacturers have programs for low-level formatting. I have
not tried them.
I wish you luck.
David Teague
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Alex Polite wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:04:13 +0200
> From: Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [OT] Faulty hard drive?
> Resent-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:10:46 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Last week I suffered something that was probably a hard drive
> crash. I do extensive nightly backups so very little data was lost,
> but the reinstallation on this sub notebook (no floppy, no cdrom) was
> rather laborious.
>
> During the reinstallation messages like these where spewed to the
> console:
> ##################################################################
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
>SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
>LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector
>2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
>SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
>LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
> Oct 3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector
>2792604
> ##################################################################
>
> I restarted the installation an went through a "check bad blocks on
> device /dev/hda". This didn't report anything (as I can recall), and I
> didn't get any more of these messages, until today when my box froze
> for a minute or so and the stuff quoted above showed up in
> /var/log/messages
>
> Is this an indication that my hard drive is physically damaged and
> that I can expect another crash unless I replace it with a new drive?
>
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