Re: Hard drive - dead or dying?

[Mark Lord]

David Sumbler wrote:
> My computer (Ubuntu Feisty) would not boot correctly a few days
> ago: it seemed to get into a loop with the following printed about
> every 7 seconds (all laboriously copied in longhand, since it wasn't
> logged!):
>
> ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65)
> ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag0 cdb 0x0 data 4096
> in
>          res 51/01:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emark 0x1 (device error)

Use 'smartctl' to find out what the drive is having issues with.

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