Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. | From | monkeyiq <> | Date | 24 May 2001 22:08:30 +1000 |
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
> On Thu, May 24 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:58:14AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Well reiserfs is probably a very bad choice at this point. It > > > does not have any bad blocks support (yet), so as soon as you have > > > a bad block you are stuck. > > > > reiserfs doesn't, but the HD usually has transparently in its firmware. > > So it hits a bad block; you see an IO error and the next time you hit > > the block the firmware has mapped in a fresh one from its internal > > reserves. > > In fact you will typically only see an I/O error if the drive _can't_ > remap the sector anymore, because it has run out. No point in reporting > a condition that was recovered. > > I'd still say, that if you get bad block errors reported from your disk > it's long overdue for replacement. > > -- > Jens Axboe
Well, I have been fighting this for a while now, its just that today it finally hit /home in a big way :( basically its giving a DoS trying to compile stuff (which needs to write 25Mb+ library files)
The drive gives the patented IBM "replace me" audio and the kernel graces me with these little chums:
May 24 14:50:22 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 24 14:50:22 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=78294495, sector=957496 May 24 14:50:22 kloof kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector 957496 May 24 14:50:22 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 24 14:50:23 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=78294495, sector=957504 May 24 14:50:23 kloof kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector 957504 May 24 14:50:23 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 24 14:50:23 kloof kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=78294495, sector=957512
I already knew that the drive was rooted by using the IBM DFT tool. I am backing up as I type. Then, roll the dice with yet another IBM drive :-/
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