Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > >

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > [snip] > > > > ?(if so how) > > > > First, ensure you have good recent backups. > > > > Then

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > ?(if so how) > > First, ensure you have good recent backups. > > Then install smartmontools and run a long S.M.A.R.T. test and check the > results. >

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, > stat=0x440 > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct > 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 > May 5 23:31:46 hufpuf kernel: ata2.00: CPB resp_fl

Re: Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-16 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:42:43 -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running > great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrec

Re: Hard Drive Problems

2004-01-15 Thread Ryan Mackay
Sometime near Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running > great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > but > unlike GNU/Linux support, Fujitsu Support doesn't function on Sundays. > It's wait and see... Amazing, isn't it? So much for superior commercial support. (Yeah yeah, I know it's not fair to compare hardware support to OS

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-12 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> it is a good idea to visit the manufacturers' site. download an utility > and test the drive for errors. seagate and western digital have pretty > good utilities that run off a floppy after you boot using a dos bootdisk. Thanks for all the replies, I've downloaded a drive testing program from Fu

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
er Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration? > I am getting the same kind of errors shown below from your email (see mail > with subject "deselect and hda: irq timeout" 10-9 ... 10-10). &g

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:09:11PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > This isn't exactly Debian specific, but maybe someone here knows what > the problem is ... ? > > I have an old P120 laptop with a 1Gig drive. This drive is acting up > quite a lot lately. At the bottom of the email i

Re: hard drive problems... misconfiguration?

2001-08-10 Thread Michael Mueller
I am getting the same kind of errors shown below from your email (see mail with subject "deselect and hda: irq timeout" 10-9 ... 10-10). I have a brand-new Western Digital WB100EB. I downloaded a diagnostic program from www.wdc.com. It detected and repaired errors. Now I am writing zeros to the