[Gllug] Disk errors.

[William Palfreman]

Sep 30 04:02:02 montagu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Sep 30 04:02:02 montagu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Sep 30 04:02:02 montagu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Sep 30 04:02:02 montagu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Sep 30 04:02:02 montagu syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Sep 30 04:22:00 montagu anacron[1343]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly' to 2001-09-30
Sep 30 04:25:15 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
Sep 30 04:25:15 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114634, sector=114571 
Sep 30 04:25:15 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 114571 
Sep 30 04:25:15 montagu kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_readdir: directory #80013 contains a hole at offset 4096 
Sep 30 04:25:16 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
Sep 30 04:25:16 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114634, sector=114571 
Sep 30 04:25:16 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 114571 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114634, sector=114571 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 114571 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: hda: status error: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=787535, sector=787472 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 787472 
Sep 30 04:25:17 montagu kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE 

Plus more of the same.  Nothing since then, but the week before:

Sep 27 04:02:51 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Sep 27 04:02:51 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError
}, LBAsect=114635, sector=114572
Sep 27 04:02:51 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda),
sector
114572
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Sep
27 04:02:52 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114634, sector=114571
Sep 27 04:02:52 montagu kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), 
sector
114571
Sep 27 04:02:53 montagu kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }

And more of it.  Cool line of ^@ or what?

Time to replace the hard disk maybe?  It is an 800Mb Western Digital
"Caviar", so it is quite old.  The entire disk is hda1

I've seen this before with suspect kernels - this is the Redhat 2.2.19
stock kernel though.  The other possibility is, bizarre as this may sound,
the disk cooling fan I bought for it may not be doing it any good.  It
certainly ran very hot without a fan for ages without a fan.  That being
said, it has been some months with its fan now, and it could be merely the
cool breeze blowing over it that keeps it alive.

Anyway, does anyone have any specific advice?  If the disk is likely to
crash at any moment I will be tempted to keep on with it, run it into the
ground, and see what uptime I can get from it when it finally packs
in. If you have come across this before as a fixable condition though - bad
cable, controller/motherboard problems, or solved by a bit of fscking I
would be interested in knowing so I don't leave it to stew!

Thanks,
Bill.


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