From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261779AbTJGCz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:55:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261780AbTJGCz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:55:29 -0400 Received: from mail.midmaine.com ([66.252.32.202]:3281 "HELO mail.midmaine.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261779AbTJGCz2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2003 22:55:28 -0400 To: Andreas Jellinghaus Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ide problem in newer kernel or disc failure X-Eric-Conspiracy: There Is No Conspiracy References: <1064881613.811.8.camel@simulacron> <200309301357.15548.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <1064926083.2511.4.camel@simulacron> From: Erik Bourget Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:54:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1064926083.2511.4.camel@simulacron> (Andreas Jellinghaus's message of "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:48:04 +0200") Message-ID: <87fzi5vjtv.fsf@loki.odinnet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Jellinghaus writes: > On Di, 2003-09-30 at 13:57, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> On Tuesday 30 of September 2003 02:26, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > my disc starts showing problems. a few weeks ago it was fine. >> > could that be a problem with latest 2.6.0-test* kernels >> > or is my disc failing? >> >> <...> >> >> Looks like a failing disk (errors logged by SMART). > > thanks. however I wonder: smart extended test does not > find any error, and this morning the disc was fine again. > > the machine was turned off, and it's a laptop. so could this > be related to temperature or something like that? > > Regards, Andreas Andreas - I am beginning to think that the entire line of Hitachi deskstar drives are faulty. I just returned THIRTY of them. The Western Digital drives do not share the Hitachi tendency for failing after 300 hours of constant heavy use. - Erik