[ale] harddrive errors

[Jim Philips]

Seagate, like other hard drive manufacturers, offers diagnostic software that 
you can download and use to find out exactly what is happening with your 
disk:

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

The last time I had a bad hard drive, the diagnostic software I got from 
Western Digital saved me a lot of head scratching. If you're brave, you can 
try fsck with the -y argument. I've used that to buy time before. It will at 
least skip over bad sectors and let you use those that are still uncorrupted.

On Sunday 05 June 2005 01:03 pm, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Recently purchased a Seagate Barracuda IDE drive from CompUSA for use in a
> software RAID-1 array.  Set it up this weekend along with LVM, and
> everything was beautiful.  However, this morning I noticed that it appears
> to have failed (mdadm reports only one drive currently operable).
> /var/log/messages shows the following:
> ----------------------
> Jun  4 18:55:20 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=152235058, high=9, low=1240114,
> sector=152235058
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> 152235058
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: ^IOperation continuing on 1 devices
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel:  --- wd:1 rd:2
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel:  disk 0, wo:1, o:0, dev:hda1
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel:  disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hde1
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel: RAID1 conf printout:
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel:  --- wd:1 rd:2
> Jun  4 18:55:21 localhost kernel:  disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hde1
> ----------------------
> I'm not very familiar with Linux harddrive error messages, so I'm
> uncertain if this is an occasional expectation or if this is an indication
> that the Seagate (/dev/hda) drive is bad.  I'm still within the time I can
> return it, so this would be valuable knowledge.
>
> I'm googling currently, but if any seasoned drive gurus out can give me a
> definitive answer I'll really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!
> John
>
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