Re: SATA disk dead? ATA: abnormal status 0x59 on port 0xE407

[Erik Steffl]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 20:25, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > >
> > > >   I got these errors when accessing SATA disk (via scsi):
> > > >
> > > > Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x59 
> > > > host_stat 0x21
> > > > Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: status=0x59 { DriveReady 
> > > > SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > > Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bad sector - the disk has lost the data on some blocks. Thats a physical
> > > disk failure.
> >
> >
> >
> >   what's somewhat weird is that the disk _seemed_ OK (i.e. no errors 
> > that I would notice, nothing in the syslog) and then suddenly the disk 
> > does not respond at all, I tried dd_rescue and it ran for hours (more 
> > than a day) and it rescued absolutely nothing. Is it possible that the 
> > disk surface is OK but the electronics went bad? Is there anything 
> > that can be done if that's the case? (I have another disk, same model).
>
>
> You probably void your waranty on both drives if you swap the control 
> board, it may require special tools you don't have, and I have done it 
> in the past. Can you get to the point where it fails and cool it with a 
> shot of freon (or whatever is politically correct these days)? May be 
> thermal, in which case you run it until you back it up, then waranty it.

  it does not respond at all (right after I boot up the computer), 
doesn't seem to be heat related. It is completely unreadable, I ran 
rr_rescue on it for a long time, it didn't read absolutely anything. It 
requires a star-shaped screwdriver, are those available somewhere?

	erik
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