Re: Is my Harddrive failing?

On 31/10/2009, at 2:57 PM, Frederick Abrams wrote:

Hiya,

Laptop Specs Attached (lshw)

My PC was running perfect not a single error and then after i rebooted the PC was working extemely slowly i checked /var/log/messages and i get the below output.

Oct 31 08:05:02 merk kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 31 08:05:02 merk kernel: ata1: EH complete
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/48:00:af:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 36864 in
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel:         res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 31 08:05:04 merk kernel: ata1: EH complete
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/48:20:af:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 36864 in
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel:         res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel:        72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel:        1e d7 3a af
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 517421743
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 160
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 161
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 162
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 163
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 164
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 165
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 166
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 167
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda6, logical block 168
Oct 31 08:05:07 merk kernel: ata1: EH complete
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/80:00:6f:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 65536 in
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel:         res 41/40:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:00:10:34/00:00:39:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 in
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel:         res 41/04:00:af:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/08:10:d0:05:c7/00:00:09:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 4096 in
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel:         res 41/04:00:af:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/a8:18:ef:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 86016 in
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel:         res 41/04:00:af:3a:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/58:20:97:3b:d7/00:00:1e:00:00/40 tag 4 ncq 45056 in
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel:         res 41/04:00:af:3a:d7/30:00:1e:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Oct 31 08:05:41 merk kernel: ata1: EH complete

Those types of errors are typical of hard drives which are on the way out, so yes I'd say your hard drive is failing.

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Regards,

Frederick Abrams
IT System/Network Administrator
Intelvision Ltd.
www.intelvision.net

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