From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:30:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602141930.45368.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060214104345.GM3209@harddisk-recovery.com>
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:43, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Still get the errors:
> >
> > [ 2311.980127] ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ
> > 0xb/00/00
> > [ 2311.980134] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > [ 2311.980138] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> FWIW, this could be related to smartctl trying to monitor the disk.
> Try this:
>
> smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX
>
> If that complains about SMART being disabled, enable it with:
>
> smartctl -d ata -e /dev/sdX
Are you sure this isn't something obvious like an insufficiently large power
supply in the system? I've had strange SATA errors before because I was
running 4 HDs and a 6600GT on a 360W PSU.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 11:58 Justin Piszcz
2006-02-13 12:00 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-13 13:16 ` Kalin KOZHUHAROV
2006-02-13 15:16 ` David Greaves
2006-02-14 1:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-14 1:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-02-14 10:43 ` Erik Mouw
2006-02-14 19:30 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-02-14 21:50 ` David Greaves
2006-02-14 23:53 ` Justin Piszcz
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