Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:50:15PM -0000, Simon Turvey wrote:
> The drive's less than a year old :-(
> 
> Should I try disabling some of the UDMA stuff?

That won't help, this indeed is a media error. The drive is heading to
hell. You have about another six months of life before it goes belly up
completely.

Any chance it's one of those fast IBM 30 or 45 gig drives? They seem to
be dying pretty fast ...

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Cox" <[e-mail]>
> To: "Simon Turvey" <[e-mail]>
> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17
> 
> 
> > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=250746,
> > > sector=250680
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 250680
> > 
> > Uncorrectable error is a message from your disk, along the lines of "Hey
> > pal I wonder if the warranty has expired yet"
> > 
> > 
> 
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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs