Drive errors

[Mani A]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Mark Fraser
<kubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

> As an update, my computer locked up again this morning (nothing worked and
> something was constantly accessing one of my drives). When I rebooted and
> check smartctrl again I did see some errors:
>
> Error 176 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2959 hours (123 days + 7 hours)
> When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or
> idle.
>

You cannot be sure. With seagate SATA drives, people get all kinds of
problems due to a kernel or firmware issue. Actually it is a cross
platform problem

You can try disabling write-cache.

#sudo hdparm -W0 /dev/sdb


But your drive is dying apparently. Is it?

Best

A. Mani


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A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc