[TriLUG] Dieing hard drive?

[David A. Cafaro]

Before giving up completely on the harddrive, also try moving it to a
different channel/controller (a different controller would be the better
of the two).  Just to make sure it's not a controller issue which could
be the issue.  Another thing to check is to see if you are using dma on
the drive and turn it off, or if you are using 32bit addressing (both
sync or async) and trying different modes or even 16bit mode (though
most installs still default to 16bit mode, and usually 32bit mode is
more likely to be unstable).  Of course first backup all your important
files first as someone mentioned already.

-David

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 00:37, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> OK.  After upgrading my desktop to Fedora Core 3, the smartd daemon
> started spewing all kinds of interesting errors.  It appears my 120GB
> Maxtor drive may be on the way out.  Damned thing went out of warranty
> about 2 months ago and I haven't even filled it yet.
> 
> How many sectors should generate read failures during a long selftest?
> I'm up past 25 and counting at this point.  I'm following the BadBlock
> Howto to get them out of the way in the hopes the drive will settle down
> and be good for a while.
> 
> Every time I re-run the selftest it just coughs up another read failure
> on a new sector.
> 
> Time to start shopping for a disk deal?
> 
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