From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934559AbXGLUbv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:31:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758702AbXGLUbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:31:42 -0400 Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.214]:47493 "EHLO ptb-relay03.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758384AbXGLUbl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:31:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Hard drive - dead or dying? From: David Sumbler Reply-To: david@aeolia.co.uk To: Mark Lord Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46962E09.40606@rtr.ca> References: <1184222444.5969.0.camel@ceres> <46962E09.40606@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:31:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1184272299.5965.4.camel@ceres> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:35 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > David Sumbler wrote: > > My computer (Ubuntu Feisty) would not boot correctly a few days > > ago: it seemed to get into a loop with the following printed about > > every 7 seconds (all laboriously copied in longhand, since it wasn't > > logged!): > > > > ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > > ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65) > > ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 > > in > > res 51/01:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emark 0x1 (device error) > > Use 'smartctl' to find out what the drive is having issues with. Unfortunately I cannot boot the computer unless the drive in question is disconnected. David -- David Sumbler