[NTLUG:Discuss] Dead Drive?

[Kelledin]

On Monday 24 March 2003 12:54 pm, Rev. wRy wrote:
> Can someone please confirm that this is really telling me my
> hard drive is about dead:
>
> [root at localhost root]# smbmount //alohaboh/aloha /exports -o
> username=user%pass
>
> returns:
>
> Bus error
>
> and tail /var/log/messages shows the following:
>
> Mar 24 12:50:33 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5311117, sector=5214720
> Mar 24 12:50:33 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
> 03:02 (hda), sector 5214720
> Mar 24 12:50:37 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Mar 24 12:50:37 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5311117, sector=5214720
> Mar 24 12:50:37 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
> 03:02 (hda), sector 5214720
>
> Tried fscking the drive, still no bueno.
>
> At this point I'll settle for confirm the drive is just about
> dead.

Have you tried turning DMA off?  If that works, you've either got 
a flaky kernel or flaky hardware.  Flaky hardware could be the 
motherboard, it could be the hard drive, or it could even be a 
new card arrangement.

Or...it might even be the cable.  80-conductor IDE cable is very, 
very sensitive to folding, stacking, creasing, excess cable 
length, and EMI in general.

-- 
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does 
it still cost four figures to fix?"