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Re: Bad WD1.6G? - Kernel Panic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Oct 25 12:34:16 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:39:52 CDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:59:12 -0400
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Mitchell Leben writes:
>I fear something is amuck. I have a 3.0.3 install on a 486/66 16MB 32MB
>swap, all on 1 Western Digital 1.6G HD. For the third time now I had a
>kernel panic and was dumped into the repair# prompt, where fsck /dev/hda4
>(/home) cured the problem, at least temporarily.
>
>Here is some of the message:
>Oct 24 23:41:42 spock kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
>Oct 24 23:41:42 spock kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3051439, sector=1753135
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I know this is BAD. What I don't know is if this is a hardware error?
Yes. Back up everything you care about *now*. Do not turn the machine
off first; that may accelerate failure. Every time I've heard of this,
it's been the prelude (sometimes quickly) to total drive failure.
Linux gurus have said the same; in particular, Ted Ts'o, who wrote
e2fsck, has had to deal with this question often, and says that it's
always a sign that the drive is about to die; he's had it happen to
himself.
>Thanks for any ideas. My 4 other WD drives are flawless for several
>years, that is why I purchased this new 1.6G.
All makers have some drives go bad.
michaelkjohnson
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