linux-kernel - Re: SATA exceptions

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:43:10 +0300
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: SATA exceptions

Hi;

06 Tem 2007 Cum tarihinde, Tejun Heo şunları yazmıştı: 
> S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
> > [ 4260.278427] ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:d0:88:bc/00:00:00:00:00/ee tag 0 cdb
> > 0x0 data 4096 out
> > [ 4260.278430]          res 51/40:01:d7:88:bc/00:00:0e:00:00/ee Emask 0x9
> > (media error)
>
> That's media error on sector 247236823 on WRITE.  Media errors on write
> are bad signs - it usually means the drive even failed to remap the
> sector because extra space ran out. 

Hmm, more than 50GB is empty on disk :)

> I'm not sure this is the case here 
> tho - the smart log is clear.  Please run smart short/long tests and see
> what they say.

Both completed without a problem;

zangetsu ~ # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  
LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%       357         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       355         -

If you want me to try something else please just say :)

Cheers
-- 
S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/

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