Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying?

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 10:43, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Still get the errors:
> >
> > [ 2311.980127] ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ
> > 0xb/00/00
> > [ 2311.980134] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > [ 2311.980138] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> FWIW, this could be related to smartctl trying to monitor the disk.
> Try this:
>
>   smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX
>
> If that complains about SMART being disabled, enable it with:
>
>   smartctl -d ata -e /dev/sdX

Are you sure this isn't something obvious like an insufficiently large power 
supply in the system? I've had strange SATA errors before because I was 
running 4 HDs and a 6600GT on a 360W PSU.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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