Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422870AbWBNXxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:53:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422890AbWBNXxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:53:47 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:27316 "EHLO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422870AbWBNXxq (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:53:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:53:45 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34 To: Alistair John Strachan cc: Erik Mouw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying? In-Reply-To: <200602141930.45368.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: References: <20060214104345.GM3209@harddisk-recovery.com> <200602141930.45368.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1363 Lines: 40 Not using anything extravagant and using a 500W aspire PSU, good thought though. On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, 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. > > -- > Cheers, > Alistair. > > 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' > Third year Computer Science undergraduate. > 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. > - 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/