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Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Erik Steffl wrote:
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>> On Sad, 2005-01-15 at 20:25, Erik Steffl wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got these errors when accessing SATA disk (via scsi):
>>>>
>>>> Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x59
>>>> host_stat 0x21
>>>> Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: status=0x59 { DriveReady
>>>> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
>>>> Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bad sector - the disk has lost the data on some blocks. Thats a physical
>>> disk failure.
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>>
>>
>> what's somewhat weird is that the disk _seemed_ OK (i.e. no errors
>> that I would notice, nothing in the syslog) and then suddenly the disk
>> does not respond at all, I tried dd_rescue and it ran for hours (more
>> than a day) and it rescued absolutely nothing. Is it possible that the
>> disk surface is OK but the electronics went bad? Is there anything
>> that can be done if that's the case? (I have another disk, same model).
>
>
> You probably void your waranty on both drives if you swap the control
> board, it may require special tools you don't have, and I have done it
> in the past. Can you get to the point where it fails and cool it with a
> shot of freon (or whatever is politically correct these days)? May be
> thermal, in which case you run it until you back it up, then waranty it.
it does not respond at all (right after I boot up the computer),
doesn't seem to be heat related. It is completely unreadable, I ran
rr_rescue on it for a long time, it didn't read absolutely anything. It
requires a star-shaped screwdriver, are those available somewhere?
erik
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