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Message-Id: <1184272299.5965.4.camel@ceres>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:31:39 +0100
From:	David Sumbler <david@...lia.co.uk>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hard drive - dead or dying?

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:35 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> David Sumbler wrote:
> > My computer (Ubuntu Feisty) would not boot correctly a few days
> > ago: it seemed to get into a loop with the following printed about
> > every 7 seconds (all laboriously copied in longhand, since it wasn't
> > logged!):
> > 
> > ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> > ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65)
> > ata1.01: cmd c8/00:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 tag0 cdb 0x0 data 4096
> > in
> >          res 51/01:08:80:b4:a8/00:00:00:00:00/f4 Emark 0x1 (device error)
> 
> Use 'smartctl' to find out what the drive is having issues with.

Unfortunately I cannot boot the computer unless the drive in question is
disconnected.

David

-- 
David Sumbler <david@...lia.co.uk>

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