From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Need help understanding SATA error message. Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: <47EDBD6D.1020207@rtr.ca> References: <47ED136F.9010501@rtr.ca> <47ED15D2.3080403@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:2851 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753471AbYC2DyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:54:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Lund Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Tomas Lund wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Lord wrote: > >> Mark Lord wrote: >> >> Duh.. actually, we were just discussing this very error in another >> thread. The drive is really telling us that it hit an unrecoverable >> WRITE error at sector 0a:24:f9 on the drive. Bad sector. .. One thing to try, to verify that my interpretation was correct, is to try and read that exact sector. It should fail, I think. The hex values are in low:middle:high order, so that translates to 0xf9240a, or decimal 16327690. So you could try this, with the latest hdparm (from sourceforge.net): hdparm --read-sector 16327689 hdparm --read-sector 16327690 hdparm --read-sector 16327691 At least one of those ought to fail, if we've done this correctly. Cheers