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  From: Michael Haarsma <mhaarsma@adel.tafe.sa.edu.au>
  To  : Damien Uern <carrigan_2606@optusnet.com.au>
        Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:26:43 +0930

RE: Argh! Hard Drive Dying?

Well I just lost one onf my drives. 40Gb in RAID 0, so ive lost 80GB.. Ah
well. I'm sure I will cry when I have worked out what I have lost.
:| 


-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Uern [mailto:carrigan_2606@optusnet.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2003 8:34 PM
To: Linux SA

Hey,

I've been getting problems reading some large (say 40MB or greater) binary
files occasionally on my box, I've been blaming Reiserfs for file
corruption, but now I'm not so sure. The latest is when trying to access
some part of the rpm database (which would be huge by now) I get this output
from the program:

[root@thebeast rpms]# rpm -i --test vice-1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm
rpmdb: read: 0x400c25fc, 4096: Input/output error
error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error
error: error(5) getting "libncurses.so.5" records from Providename index
rpmdb: read: 0x400d097c, 4096: Input/output error
error: db4 error(5) from dbcursor->c_get: Input/output error
error: error(5) getting "libpng.so.3" records from Providename index
error: failed dependencies:
        libncurses.so.5   is needed by vice-1.11-4mdk
        libpng.so.3   is needed by vice-1.11-4mdk

I've had similar input/output error messages from other programs (e.g cp). 
Looking in /var/log/messages I see this:

Jul 15 20:14:56 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error } Jul 15 20:14:56 thebeast kernel: hda: dma_intr:
error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=89665229, sector=665064 Jul 15
20:14:56 thebeast kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda), sector
665064

... (8 more times)

This harddrive I got replaced on warranty once before, it used to be a
western digital caviar 40GB 7200rpm (it made strange clicking noises
occasionally), but now it's a seagate 80GB 7200rpm drive:

hda: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive

Could the problem also be my motherboard (seems strange to have 2 hard drive
failures in 1.5 years). This is my IDE chipset (MSI mobo - VIA kt266):

VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:11.1

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).

I'm tired of having a flaky computer!! Any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers,

Damien

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