Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

Not using anything extravagant and using a 500W aspire PSU, good thought 
though.

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote:

> 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.'
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