I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine
is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it.
Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird "ping" noise that
I know I've never heard before. These ping's are very infrequent, but
usually come 2-3 within a minute, then won't happen again (that I know)
for a day or two. Even that seems too often....
About 5-10 seconds after any ping, I get these messages:
Oct 25 23:13:52 hoopy kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Oct 25 23:13:52 hoopy kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 25 23:13:55 hoopy kernel: ide0: reset: success
or these
Oct 25 23:13:55 hoopy kernel: hda: status error: status=0x00 { }
Oct 25 23:13:55 hoopy kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 25 23:13:58 hoopy kernel: ide0: reset: success
or these
Oct 25 23:16:21 hoopy kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Oct 25 23:16:21 hoopy kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Oct 25 23:16:21 hoopy kernel: ide0: reset: success
and usually the first two lines in each group is repeated four times before
I get the ide0: reset message. The messages are printed all at once 5-10
seconds after the weird ping noise.
Can anyone tell me what this might indicate? Hopefully it's not the drive
going bad, considering it's less that 6 months old. What would be the
best way to diagnose and repair this problem??? I really don't favor
getting another drive, since this is my primary machine.
Thanks...
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