[Gllug] Hard drive problems

[James Roberts]

Rich Walker wrote:
>> On Thursday 31 May 2007 16:00, Rich Walker wrote:
>>> I don't know if anyone else has them, but yesterday and today I had a
>>> Samsung Spinpoint SP2514N fail each day, with lots of IDE busy errors.
>>>
>>> I've just removed them and now a Maxtor drive is doing the same thing.
>>> Kernel version 2.6.20 SMP - any ideas?
> hde (Spinpoint) starts giving errors. Then I get errors from ext3 on one
> partition on /dev/md1
> 
> hde gets pulled from the array, and the spare added. When resync
> finished, I reboot and do a fsck on the faulty partition.
> 
> Next day: hdi (Spinpoint) gives same errors, followed by file system
> errors. I pull hdi from the array, shut the machine down, remove hde and
> hdi from the machine, and replace hdi with a handy 250GB
> Seagate. Reboot, go through fsck hell again, add hdi to md1 and let it rebuild.
> 
> On a Windows machine, the two Spinpoint disks are formatted
> happily. We're running chkdsk on there now.
> 
> Meanwhile a Maxtor drive (hdk) has started giving the 
> 
> [10059.640000] hdk: drive_cmd: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> [10059.640000] ide: failed opcode was: 0xea
> 
> error that the other two did. No file system errors *yet*.

Questions/considerations -

1. I assume you are on a real UPS?
2. Have you checked/swapped system PSU?
3. Have checked with the Manufacturers Test utilities? A simple source 
of most of them is:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

(Most of the utilities are DOS but the disk is built with Linux :)

MeJ
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