I have had this message: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 with two hard drives, one of them brand new, so I do not think it means the hard drive is coming to the end of it's life.
For me, it was the above repeated endlessly on increasing sector numbers. I think it was due to my harddisk controller, (some Future Domain beast), and because debian doesn't recognise the controller properly (it shows up as the third ide channel after the two on the motherboard) I found no solution to this problem, except to make sure that my hard drives were on the first or second ide channel. This was with the standard 2.0.34/5 kernel, and still when I recompiled it. I think the slink kernel may have better ide channel support, but I haven't tried it yet. Frankie aka Skunkpussy http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: 09 December 1998 15:30 Subject: Re: Help with Hard drive error messages >I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I >believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its >life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have >had it for 3 years before that. > >If anyone can give me a more optomistic diagnosis, I would be >very happy... > >John. > >Daniel Mashao wrote: >> >> What do the following errors mean: >> >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, >> sector=103023 >> 0 >> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, >> sector=103023 >> 0 >> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 >> >> This occurs on two machines. Where, other than in the code, can I get >> information on these error messages? And what are the implications of the >> messages? >> >> /--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---/ >> Daniel J. Mashao >> Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel >> Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 >> /--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---/ >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
