Day: January 11, 2005

Not a good thing to wake up to

Email in my inbox this morning:


The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors

For details see host’s SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).

You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.

Looked in /var/log/messages, and I find:


Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompl
ete Error }
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=105859162, sector=105859101
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 11 04:10:19 allhats kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 105859101
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=105859162, sector=105859109
Jan 11 04:10:22 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Ok, 4:10 am was about when yum was installing new software, or maybe it was when the nightly backup was running, but I guess something was hitting a part of the disk that hasn’t been hit in a while.

I’ve started running the nightly backup every 2 hours. When I get home tonight I’m going to have to try the WDC diagnostics, and fsck to see if that will fix it. If it doesn’t, I’ve got a 180Gb drive on the shelf. That’s the one that didn’t get along well with Fedora Core 3. It passed the WDC diagnostics, so it was probably just an artifact of the way it was partitioned, so hopefully partitioning it and formatting it will fix whatever ailed it.

This could be a very long night.