Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

Skip Ford
2002-02-26T20:07:25Z

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Simon Turvey wrote:
> The drive's less than a year old :-(
>
> Should I try disabling some of the UDMA stuff?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: "Simon Turvey" <turveysp@ntlworld.com>
> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
>
>
> > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=250746,
> > > sector=250680
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 250680
> >
> > Uncorrectable error is a message from your disk, along the lines of "Hey
> > pal I wonder if the warranty has expired yet"

I've seen 2 drives with UncorrectableErrors that were correctable.

One happened after booting Linux with APM enabled, and the other after
running Windows with vendor-specific DMA Block mode enabled.

In each case a low level format took care of it. No bad sectors on
either drive in over a year.

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