[vox-tech] Hard drive dying?

[Bill Kendrick]

I was tapping away in OpenOffice.org when all of a sudden X locked up.
I switched over to a VT to see if something was eating CPU or somesuch,
and was presented with a variety of error messages regarding my hard drive!


I just captured a few more from /var/log/syslog:

Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947898] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947908] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947917] ata1.00: cmd 25/00:a8:76:9e:2d/00:03:09:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 479232 in
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947919]          res 51/40:00:56:a0:2d/94:00:09:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947925] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.947928] ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.950854] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 22 17:44:53 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3884.950866] ata1: EH complete
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900651] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900688] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900692] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900739] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900793] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors (120034 MB)
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900808] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900811] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Feb 22 17:44:55 dell-desktop kernel: [ 3886.900837] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA


What gives!? 8^o

Googling in the meantime,

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