[TriLUG] HD Diags -> smarttools

[H Brett Bolen]

has anybody used this?

> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983

I too get disk errors when booting:

> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x53 { DriveReady SeekComplete Index Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> ide0: reset: success

but things seem to work fine after the initial boot.  I have not
run the deep test with smarttools yet.

Am I a disaster waiting to happen?

b

Mike Parkhurst wrote:

> All of a sudden I'm getting alot of these messages in my logs and 
> timeouts while reading files.
> 
> Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { 
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { 
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8650304, sector=8393264
> Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 
> (hda), sector 8393264
> 
> Is there any way to do disk diagnostics in linux?  It seems that the 
> disk is checked during install and I should be able to do whatever the 
> installer does from the command line.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike


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