Re: Hard drive - dead or dying?

From: David Sumbler
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 16:31:52 EST


On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:35 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately I cannot boot the computer unless the drive in question is
disconnected.

David

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