Re: SATA exceptions

[Robert Hancock]

S.ÃaÄlar Onur wrote:
> 06 Tem 2007 Cum tarihinde, Tejun Heo ÅunlarÄ yazmÄÅtÄ: 
> > S.ÃaÄlar Onur wrote:
> > > [ 4260.278427] ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:d0:88:bc/00:00:00:00:00/ee tag 0 cdb
> > > 0x0 data 4096 out
> > > [ 4260.278430]          res 51/40:01:d7:88:bc/00:00:0e:00:00/ee Emask 0x9
> > > (media error)
> > That's media error on sector 247236823 on WRITE.  Media errors on write
> > are bad signs - it usually means the drive even failed to remap the
> > sector because extra space ran out. 
>
> Hmm, more than 50GB is empty on disk :)

It's not the free space on the drive that matters, it's the number of 
free sectors in the spare sector pool on the drive, which is invisible 
to software.

Your SMART log shows 309 reallocated sectors. That seems somewhat high..

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