Re: harddisk or kernel problem?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Monday 16 of February 2004 00:34, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:17:34PM +0100]:
> > [ ... ]
> > Check your disk with SMART tools: http://smartmontools.sf.net.
>
> Before I continue to report what I've found out:
>
> Thank you all for your good help!
>
> I'm really down as this is the second disk
> dyeing within two month (and the second 2.5" hd even, I begin to think
> notebooks don't like me :/).

:-(  sh*t happens

> I currently collect all data I get / find out to
>
> http://schotteli.us/~nico/hd-problem.02/
> (renamed it, as this does not look like a kernel problem and I don't
> want somebody believe this).
>
> Currently I don't really understand the output of smartctl and cannot
> say what causes the error. Perhaps someone can give me a hint on this?

The most important things are: READ DMA errors were logged,
SMART self tests (short and extended) completed with read failure.

For me this is 100% disk problem (not cable etc.).