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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: david@aeolia.co.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hard drive - dead or dying?
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:35:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46962E09.40606@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184222444.5969.0.camel@ceres>

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.

-ml

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-12  6:40 Hard drive - dead or dying? David Sumbler
2007-07-12 13:35 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-07-12 20:31   ` David Sumbler
2007-07-13  8:13     ` Tejun Heo

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