[vox-tech] Hard drive dying?

[Brian Lavender]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:52:25PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> 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

My drive died on my laptop. Maybe Dell had some monkeys putting together
their laptopps. Your errors look very similar. :(

I bought a new drive and then called Dell. They sent me a new drive. You
can borrow my spare while you are waiting. 

Here is what I got when I tried with the Ubuntu boot disk. 

root at ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

# dmesg | tail

[ 1922.582646] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1922.582652] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1922.582726] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1922.678255] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 1922.678273] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 1922.678286] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:57:20:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[ 1922.678289]          res 41/84:08:57:20:00/8f:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F>
[ 1922.678298] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 1922.678303] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 1922.678314] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 1922.996194] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[ 1922.998893] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 1922.998916] ata1: EH complete
[ 1922.999026] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
[ 1922.999072] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1922.999079] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1922.999157] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1923.094748] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 1923.094763] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 1923.094776] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:57:20:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
[ 1923.094779]          res 41/84:08:57:20:00/8f:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F>
[ 1923.094787] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 1923.094792] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 1923.094803] ata1: hard resetting link
[ 1923.412188] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
[ 1923.415413] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 1923.415440] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
[ 1923.415450] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [descriptor]
[ 1923.415462] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
[ 1923.415469]         72 0b 47 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
[ 1923.415495]         00 00 20 57 
[ 1923.415506] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Scsi parity error
[ 1923.415519] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 8279
[ 1923.415550] ata1: EH complete
[ 1923.415636] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=8, block=1027
[ 1923.415836] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB)
[ 1923.415880] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1923.415886] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1923.415960] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1923.416986] EXT3-fs: no journal found.

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Brian Lavender
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