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  From: Ant <fineales@ozemail.com.au>
  To  : Damien Uern <carrigan_2606@optusnet.com.au>
  Date: 15 Jul 2003 21:30:10 +0930

Re: Argh! Hard Drive Dying?

Try using the "noerror" switch (and maybe sync) with dd.Im not sure if
it would pad the errors or not to keep the rest of the filesystem
aligned.

Ant

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:24, Damien Uern wrote:
> Extra info: It's not a large binary file (I thought it might be the package 
> database), it's a 300K (331776 bytes) file that can't be read:
> 
> [root@thebeast rpm]# dd if=Providename of=Providename2
> dd: reading `Providename': Input/output error
> 264+0 records in
> 264+0 records out
> 
> It's the same sector: 665064.
> 
> Damien
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:03 pm, Damien Uern wrote:
> > Ok just installed this program via rpm (even with the broken database,
> > still worked somehow), this is what it reports:
> >
> > [root@thebeast damien]# hddtemp /dev/hda
> > ST380021A
> > /dev/hda: ST380021A: 33°C
> >
> > Is 33 degrees bad for a hard drive?
> >
> > Just as extra debug, these are the messages I got whilst the package was
> > installing (can see it was 2 different sectors it was having trouble
> > reading, 665064 is the one reported earlier):
> >
> > Jul 15 20:57:37 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error }
> > Jul 15 20:57:37 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89659802, sector=659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:37 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda),
> > sector 659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:42 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error }
> > Jul 15 20:57:42 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89659802, sector=659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:42 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda),
> > sector 659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:48 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error }
> > Jul 15 20:57:48 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89659802, sector=659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:48 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda),
> > sector 659632
> > Jul 15 20:57:55 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error }
> > Jul 15 20:57:55 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89665229, sector=665064
> > Jul 15 20:57:55 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda),
> > sector 665064
> > Jul 15 20:58:00 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error }
> > Jul 15 20:58:00 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89665229, sector=665064
> > Jul 15 20:58:00 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda),
> > sector 665064
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Damien
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:38 pm, Ryan Verner wrote:
> > > Woo, hard drive's dying!
> > >
> > > ...I've never had that happen to me ;-)
> > >
> > > > Could my computer perhaps not have enough cooling in it (temperature
> > > > hovers around 58-59 degrees with the case OFF and CPU idle!). Mobo
> > > > temp at this very moment is 41 degrees, CPU is 58 (hovers around 61-
> > > > 62 idle when case on).
> > >
> > > There's a nice little utility called 'hdtemp' which on modern hard drives
> > > (>10gig, usually), will actually tell you the temperature of your hard
> > > drive. Turns out there's actually temp. sensors in the damn things,
> > > something that certainly doesn't seem to be well known.
> > >
> > > It may just be a heat issue.  I've got 5 hard drives in my machine, but
> > > no two are touching each other.  They tend to get very, very hot if they
> > > are.
> > >
> > > R
> > >
> > > > I'm tired of having a flaky computer!! Any help would be most
> > > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Damien
> > > >
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