[Gllug] Hard Drive Help (Running Linux)

[Ben Whyte]

Hi

Guys wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction.  I seem to be 
having a problem with my hard disk and I think its hardware related.

Every now and again when it tries to do something, reading or writing 
the drive starts to click the machine becomes very heavily loaded and in 
the end i have to reboot the machine.  This is happening fairly often now.

In syslog, the following gets output

Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 
SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464] ata2.00: cmd 
c8/00:00:5f:d2:47/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 131072 in
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464]          res 
51/40:af:b1:d2:47/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.325464] ata2.00: error: { UNC }
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.341465] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jul  9 09:35:36 thor kernel: [   22.341465] ata2: EH complete
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 
SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477] ata2.00: cmd 
c8/00:00:5f:d2:47/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 131072 in
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477]          res 
51/40:af:b1:d2:47/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.517477] ata2.00: error: { UNC }
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.537478] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jul  9 09:35:39 thor kernel: [   22.537478] ata2: EH complete

Now I dont really understand this but I think its saying there is a 
problem reading the drive.

I have reformatted the drive since this started.  I'm thinking its time 
for a new hard drive.  What do people think ?

Thanks

Ben

p.s.  The rest of the relevant bits of my syslog are available here 
http://www.whyte-systems.co.uk/syslog
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