[TriLUG] HD Diags -> smarttools

kevin kevin at flanagannc.net
Wed Jan 28 09:50:36 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:43, H Brett Bolen wrote:

Brett,

	I did install this on a system at work, with good disks and array
controllers it gives a real good bit of info, don't know how useful
it'll be on a no name, or even desktop system that doesn't have support
for SMART disk counters etc.



Kevin


> has anybody used this?
> 
> > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983
> 
> I too get disk errors when booting:
> 
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> > kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x53 { DriveReady SeekComplete Index Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> > ide0: reset: success
> 
> but things seem to work fine after the initial boot.  I have not
> run the deep test with smarttools yet.
> 
> Am I a disaster waiting to happen?
> 
> b
> 
> Mike Parkhurst wrote:
> 
> > All of a sudden I'm getting alot of these messages in my logs and 
> > timeouts while reading files.
> > 
> > Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { 
> > DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { 
> > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8650304, sector=8393264
> > Jan 28 06:06:47 Webserver kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 
> > (hda), sector 8393264
> > 
> > Is there any way to do disk diagnostics in linux?  It seems that the 
> > disk is checked during install and I should be able to do whatever the 
> > installer does from the command line.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> 
> 
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