From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932876AbXGLNfV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:35:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761635AbXGLNfI (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:35:08 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4723 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759284AbXGLNfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:35:07 -0400 Message-ID: <46962E09.40606@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:35:05 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@aeolia.co.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hard drive - dead or dying? References: <1184222444.5969.0.camel@ceres> In-Reply-To: <1184222444.5969.0.camel@ceres> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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