LinuxQuestions.org - Harddrive errors (DRDY abort - I/O error, dev sda, sector 4086)and relevent OS issue

This is 2 questions, but I am pretty sure they are both related:

Q1.) Ubuntu 11.10 all of a sudden stopped loading, The errors it gave on attempting to start where:

Code:

ascupsd not configured, make sure ISCONFIGURED at /etc/default/apcupsd

saned not enabled ---- SANED

                    ..... saned not enabled - /etc/default/saned

rebooted using root shell, and did
$: cd /etc/default/
ls -a

apcupsd was there but wouldn't let me open it: Permission denied - You do not have the permission to use this file.
Same result with saned.

At the same time, Occasionally when I started, Just after the main bios diagnostic it would say:
Broadcom found ...
NO DISKDRIVE DETECTED

A restart would stop that.

Since Ubuntu wouldn't even get to the boot screen I said **** it ... Put in a mint live CD, and formatted and installed that on the whole drive.

Q2.)
Mint starts 1 out of 4 times ... it also is giving me errors:
1.) DRDY error - abort
2.) I/O ERROR, dev sda, sector 4086
3.) ata1.00 - error (I dunno what comes after this I am not quick enough to write it down) ... This error flashes page by page FAST before moving on
4.)Device not found, Did you wait long enough for drive to respond?
5.) Did you wait long enough for root device?

These errors appear at a majority of my startups. However; When I CAN get to mint, I do SMART test (From GUI not command line), and the drive shows as healthy as can be ... 0 errors.

Despite what smart says ... I am thinking it is a HDD issue, if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them, I'm too broke right now to replace the drive. :)

Fujitsu lifebook S-series 6240

Code:

uname -a

Linux lifebook 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux



#This next part is excerpts I figure may be useful from

 dmesg | less

cat /proc/cpuinfo

cat /proc/meminfo

cat /proc/interrupts

cat /proc/ioports #

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[    2.667448] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.13

[    2.667472] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

[    2.667519] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64

[    2.667612] usbcore: registered new device driver usb

[    2.667776] scsi0 : ata_piix

[    2.667938] scsi1 : ata_piix

[    2.668803] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x1410 irq 14

[    2.668807] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x1418 irq 15

[    2.668847] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19

[    2.668853] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 -- -- ]

[    2.674684] ata2: port disabled. ignoring.

[    2.852432] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33

[    3.163779] ata3.00: ATA-7: FUJITSU MHV2060AT PL, 000000A0, max UDMA/100

[    3.163784] ata3.00: 117210240 sectors, multi 16: LBA 

[    3.163800] ata3.00: applying bridge limits

[    3.176428] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100

[    3.176548] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access    ATA      FUJITSU MHV2060A 0000 PQ





lspci



00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 04)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21)

06:03.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711MP1/MS1 MemoryCardBus Controller (rev 20)

06:03.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller

06:03.3 Bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MS/xD Controller

06:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

06:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

Anything else that is needed, Don't hesitate to ask.