Laurence Orchard wrote:
Hi
I get these all the time on one of my IBM disks, accompanied by a
chugging sound as the disk retries something. While it is doing this the
machine will not do anything else!
If this is repeatedly occurring on the same drive it likely indicates a
failing drive.
It occurs on particular files in the file system which suggests there is
some error actually there. To clear the problem I copy the
whole partition to another disk then remake the file system using:
mkfs -t ext3 -c -c /dev/hde1
then copy everything back.
this uses a destructive scan for badblocks on the partition.
just using 'badblocks' without rebuilding the FS does not seem to work
the same.
This will solve the problem for about 6 to 9 months.
This seems to indicate a possible problem with the drive, since the
destructive test will identify and mark any bad blocks and then not use
them. However, if there is a failing area on the disk, it would not be
seen or grow except when that area on the disk where it is physically
located is used. Thus, if you can isolate the drive area where it is
located you might be able to avoid it, but I would replace the drive.
Drives are cheap nowdays. (I can buy 18gb scsi drives for about $10 today)
I would be interested to know if this is just a glitch and not a real
error, as I am considering junking the disk in question.
If it is just a glitch? how do I stop it retrying all the time?
Laurence
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:40, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:36, Adam Voigt wrote:
I've been getting these on a couple of my older boxes I use for testing,
it's quite annoying when your on the console. Any way to silence these
errors?
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:16, Dave Jones wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:48, david walcroft wrote:
Is this error saying the disks are dying.
Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
harmless.
51/04 is the drive saying Eh? in response to the kernel
asking if it supports a certain ata command. It's not uncommon to
see these with older drives.
they are largely useless in this case, and cause more panic than
anything else. I'll have a word with the IDE bod.
Dave
