Drive errors

[Mark Fraser]

On Saturday 18 October 2008 10:13:48 Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Friday 17 October 2008 22:16:44 Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> >> Mark Fraser wrote:
> >> > Emanoil, I haven't run badblocks yet, but I loaded up a live CD this
> >> > morning and ran fsck.ext3 which didn't find anything wrong.
> >> >
> >> > Also, I have done a backup of the majority of the drive, but if I was
> >> > to copy everything to a new drive how do I make a bootable partition?
> >>
> >> fsck checks the file system not the drive integrity
> >
> > Ran badblocks this morning and it completed without errors. Will see if I
> > get any more errors in the logs today and then I'll have to use another
> > drive.
>
> If the drive is ok, then it might be another issue. You can check what
> chipset you have and google about issues with your specific chipset, or may
> be with your specific drive model.
>
> May be contact the kernel people, who will tell you to install the recent
> kernel and try again.
>
> regards

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.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  10 51 01 6e f0 50 e9

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  37 ff 01 6e f0 50 e9 00      03:35:52.602  SET MAX ADDRESS EXT
  27 ff 00 6e f0 50 e0 00      03:35:52.378  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
  37 ff 00 6e f0 50 e9 00      03:35:52.313  SET MAX ADDRESS EXT
  27 ff 01 6e f0 50 e0 00      03:35:50.233  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRES

and:

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  37 ff 01 6e f0 50 e9 00      01:48:28.144  SET MAX ADDRESS EXT
  27 ff 00 6e f0 50 e0 00      01:48:28.093  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
  37 ff 00 6e f0 50 e9 00      01:48:28.092  SET MAX ADDRESS EXT
  27 ff 01 6e f0 50 e0 00      01:48:28.092  READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
  37 ff 01 6e f0 50 e9 00      01:48:28.092  SET MAX ADDRESS EXT


Also ran Hard Disk Sentinel which came back with:

HDD Device  0: /dev/sda
HDD Model ID : ST380815AS
HDD Serial No: 6RA4P3CL
HDD Revision : 3.AAD
HDD Size     : 76319 MB
Interface    : S-ATA II
Temperature  : 40 °C
Health       : 100 %
Performance  : 100 %
Power on time: 123 days, 9 hours
Est. lifetime: more than 1000 days

Still think I might have to replace the drive sooner than later.
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