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Re: is my hd dying soon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 16 14:36:56 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:34:27 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am getting this message in /var/log/message from time to time. What does
> it mean really? btw, /dev/hda has one ntfs partition only and it is not
> mounted under linux. Thanks!
>
> Nov 14 22:19:54 chaplin kernel: hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x7e {
> DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index }
It indeed means it is dying. While it is not used by Linux, the
drive is still spinning up and its internal firmware detected a
problem and generated an interrupt to alert the OS.
Consider yourself alerted.
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