Hard disk error

[steve]

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Paras pradhan wrote:
| Hi,
|
|  From few weeks, sometimes (4 to 5 times a day) my ubunty gusty system
| doesnot responds to anything and have to wait a minute or two to use the
| system normally. I check the log. Below is my output of dmesg
|
| What should I do now?
|
| Thanks
| Paras.
|
|
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| [  310.672000] ata1: EH complete
| [  317.456000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
| [  317.456000] ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24)
| [  317.456000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:0d:7d:61/00:00:00:00:00/e7 tag 0
| cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
| [  317.456000]          res 51/40:07:0e:7d:61/00:00:00:00:00/e7 Emask
| 0x9 (media error)
| [  317.480000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
| [  317.480000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK
| driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
| [  317.480000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
| [descriptor]
| [  317.480000] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
| [  317.480000]         72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
| [  317.480000]         07 61 7d 0e
| [  317.480000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error -
| auto reallocate failed
| [  317.480000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 123829518
| [  317.480000] ata1: EH complete
| [  317.500000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors
| (120034 MB)
| [  317.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
| [  317.512000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
| [  317.516000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
| enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
| [  317.516000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors
| (120034 MB)
| [  317.516000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
| [  317.516000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
| [  317.516000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
| enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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[  317.480000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error -
auto reallocate failed
[sda] Sense Key : Medium Error


that really says it all.  sounds as if your drive is beginning to fail.




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Steve Reilly

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