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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>,
	Peter <elekesp@freemail.hu>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata problem...
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:22:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7E6AE5.7080709@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110313084236.GH2005@htj.dyndns.org>

On 11-03-13 04:42 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:10:51PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>>> I dont know why there is "[    2.098493] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED" in dmesg.
>>>
>>> I have 3 WD Green 1TB HDD, and I samsung 160GB HDD.
>>> 1 SAMSUNG and 1 WD on the intel SATA,
>>> 2 WD on the GIGABYTE Sata.
>>> I think the problem is only with the gigabye sata port.
>>
>> That's an uncorrectable read error the drive is reporting. Most
>> likely that hard drive is failing.
> 
> Or maybe just a bad sector, in which case just writing it over would
> cause the drive to reallocate the failed region.  I think this
> partial/transient failure mode is much more common than the whole
> drive going south.


One would think so!  :)

But in my experience, the latter just about always follows the former
within a surprisingly short amount of time (weeks).

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-14 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <04BB68BD-352B-45B0-A7FC-42B6005A80B3@freemail.hu>
     [not found] ` <20110227153338.GA23527@mtj.dyndns.org>
2011-03-12 20:33   ` sata problem Peter
2011-03-13  2:10     ` Robert Hancock
2011-03-13  8:42       ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-14 19:22         ` Mark Lord [this message]
2005-10-31  9:34 Luca

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