When Linux hard drives go bad

[Duane Morin]

On 27 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Well, first, check your kernel logs and see if a HDD is having
> problems.  If it is, you could just go buy a new HDD.

Oddly I don't see anything meaningful in the errors log but warnings is 
full of stuff like this:

Jun 27 11:28:49 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { Dr
iveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 27 11:28:49 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Unc
orrectableError }, LBAsect=19579678, sector=120168
Jun 27 11:28:49 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:
08 (hda), sector 120168


There is an old Thinkpad600e.  Think I can still find a hard drive for it?  
I'm not sure it's worth grabbing somebody's used one off ebay and just 
having the same problem.  Better to save the money toward a new one rather 
than that.

DUane


 > 
> -derek
> 
> Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> writes:
> 
> > I think my laptop is dying.  For some apps (particularly mozilla) it goes 
> > into this weird hang mode where all I can hear is this rhythmic 
> > "kachunkachunkachunka" noise for many seconds.   Also some copy operations 
> > in the file system have failed with weird "IO errors".  Lastly and perhaps 
> > most importantly, sometimes when rebooting the machine it gives me a 
> > failure to check the file system.
> > 
> > Assuming for the moment that a new laptop is not in my future, is there a 
> > way that I can somehow detect and flag bad sectors on the drive?  Or at 
> > least determine which files use those bad areas so that I can work around 
> > them?  Mozilla is the primary culprit, but not the only one.
> > 
> > Duane
> > 
> > 
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