Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422815AbWBNVt6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422817AbWBNVt6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:58 -0500 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:1754 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422815AbWBNVt5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:49:57 -0500 Message-ID: <43F25089.2020109@dgreaves.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:50:01 +0000 From: David Greaves User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Erik Mouw , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying? References: <20060214104345.GM3209@harddisk-recovery.com> <200602141930.45368.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200602141930.45368.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1242 Lines: 45 Alistair John Strachan wrote: >On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:43, Erik Mouw wrote: > > >>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> >>>Still get the errors: >>> >>>[ 2311.980127] ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ >>>0xb/00/00 >>>[ 2311.980134] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >>>[ 2311.980138] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } >>> >>> >>FWIW, this could be related to smartctl trying to monitor the disk. >>Try this: >> >> smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX >> >>If that complains about SMART being disabled, enable it with: >> >> smartctl -d ata -e /dev/sdX >> >> > >Are you sure this isn't something obvious like an insufficiently large power >supply in the system? I've had strange SATA errors before because I was >running 4 HDs and a 6600GT on a 360W PSU. > > > I have very similar problems - I spent ?70ish on a decent branded, reviewed 500W PSU and *still* have the exact same problems. David -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/