From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265960AbUHFNle (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:41:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265812AbUHFNle (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:41:34 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([212.17.55.49]:26760 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265960AbUHFNk7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:40:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 14:40:48 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Alan Cox cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: libata: dma, io error messages In-Reply-To: <1091795565.16307.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1091795565.16307.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Alan Cox wrote: >> Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed > > Bad block, and sufficiently bad that it couldn't then recover the block > and rewrite it. When a drive sees a marginal read (lot of forward error > correction recovery needed) it will try and rewrite or move the block. > > In this case it couldn't read the block enough to move it. Ouch. I've contacted my supplier to replace the disk. Kudo's to Neil Brown for mdadm - I had an email waiting for me this morning to tell me about the failed disk. Thanks Alan. regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Windows 95 has been operating for 2 hours, 32 minutes. No errors reported. CALL GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS NOW!