kacheng 0 Posted November 20, 2003 Hi, I'm trying to put a 20MB Maxtor 2B020H1 into an old P166 RedHat 8.0 box. It seems to mount fine and everything, but there are a bunch of i/o seek errors towards the end of the drive. Something like: Quote: Sep 10 12:50:39 genbaby kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 10 12:50:39 genbaby kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=16210739, sector=16210584 Sep 10 12:50:39 genbaby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 16210584 The drive is an ext3 partition mounted at /home. I've checked the cabling and all seems well. BIOS: set at automatic detection for LBA mode. I tried in Normal mode as well. Should I try Large mode? What could be causing the trouble? Outputs: cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 rw 0 0 cat /proc/mounts/ rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /var ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /tmp ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 rw 0 0 fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 780 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 5 10048+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 6 65 120960 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 66 113 96768 83 Linux /dev/hda4 114 780 1344672 5 Extended /dev/hda5 114 597 975712+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 598 742 292288+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 743 780 76576+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 39703 20010280+ 83 Linux Thanks for your help! Share this post Link to post
GhostSong 0 Posted November 26, 2003 Greetings, What you wanna hear ? The truth or something sweet ? If you want the sweet : Check your disk , otherwise : here it goes : I think your drive's about to go ... (As you said , you've already checkd within the bios/cables/IDE) So... () It could be something that has to do with DMA though , i dont know for sure , su root | hdparm -d /dev/hdb1 ( hdb1 aint that one ? ) Check the DMA mode also , ( man hdparm ) Farewel Share this post Link to post
kacheng 0 Posted November 26, 2003 Thanks GhostSong, I think you are right as the drive started to show SMART errors. I put the Maxtor diagnostic program on it and it lit up with FAILED FAILED FAILED FAILED stuff everywhere. So it's on its way back to Toronto as we speak. Thanks Share this post Link to post
GhostSong 0 Posted November 30, 2003 Greetings, You're welcome , Don't mention it,anytime PS I'm sorry 'bout your hdd | What can i say ? @ happens,not only to you but to everyone.I hope you didnt lost any important files (that's what matters) Feel free to state any other problems at all.We all here for you Farewell Share this post Link to post
kel 0 Posted January 27, 2005 I know it is a little late now, but once I had a similar problem and it was the cable. not cabled wrong but the cable was going bad. Just something else to look at. Share this post Link to post
