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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter <elekesp@freemail.hu>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata problem...
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:42:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110313084236.GH2005@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7C27AB.1010908@gmail.com>

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.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-13  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ 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 [this message]
2011-03-14 19:22         ` Mark Lord

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