[svlug] fsck on HD booted from CD???

[Skip Evans]

Hey Nick & all,

Yes, the errors look very much like that.

So how long will it be before the mechanical hard 
drive goes the way of the dial telephone and are 
only used by bitter old men with Einstein hairdos 
muttering incomprehensively about the day when 
people respected things like quality workmanship 
and the plain old four dollar cup of coffee?

Jus' wondering.

Skip

Nick Austin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:10:15PM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> 
>>Hey Nick & all,
>>
>>Well, I got Xubuntu to boot again and dmesg came 
>>up with errors on the HD, so I tried this:
> 
> 
> What are the errors? Do they look like this:
> 
> [4297208.612000] Buffer I/O error on device hda5, logical block 0
> [4297217.875000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [4297217.875000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114688099, high=6, low=14024803, sector=114688099
> [4297217.875000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> [4297217.875000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 114688099
> [4297217.875000] Buffer I/O error on device hda5, logical block 1
> [4297226.987000] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [4297226.987000] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=114688099, high=6, low=14024803, sector=114688098
> 
> I'd bet the drive is toast. It seems that hard drive either fail in the
> first 24 hours or last for years from my experience. But they are mechanical
> devices that are prone to failure.
> 
> Excessive heat is one of the quickest ways to kill a hard drive, you can check
> the temp of most modern drives with hddtemp.

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