failing hard disk...i think...
my machine is running RH 9.0 - and the output of uname -r = 2.4.20-6
recently, the contents of /var/log/messages has been filling up with hard disk errors of the type:
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Mar 3 11:09:48 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 3 11:09:48 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=332084242, high=19, low=13317138, sec
tor=328003672
Mar 3 11:09:48 bono kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 328003672
Mar 3 11:12:30 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 3 11:12:30 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=332087562, high=19, low=13320458, sec
tor=328007016
Mar 3 11:12:30 bono kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 328007016
Mar 3 11:12:35 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Mar 3 11:12:35 bono kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=332087567, high=19, low=13320463, sec
tor=328007024
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My first plan of action was to unmount the drive (which contains an ext3 filesystem) and run:
fsck -y /dev/hdb1
it ran and corrected some errors and ended.
I remounted the drive and have tried to pull all important data from it...in the midst of this, I was watching the logs for more errors and sure enough, the same ones as lited above re-surfaced.
I un-mounted the drive again and ran: fsck -y /dev/hdb1 and it returned that the disk was clean!?!?
I am also getting I/O errors from this disk (which, by the way is a brand new WD 200GB / 7200RPM / 8mb cache disk) which look like:
[root@bono data]# cp: reading `<FILE>': Input/output error
I think the inevitable is replacing this disk, but its brand new...how often do brand new (within 2 weeks of purchase) drives fail? Anomaly here? Can anyone offer an alternate plan of action to check whether this disk is indeed failing???
Thanks
Zepplin611
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