[Techtalk] ide problem?

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Hi Maria,

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:33 -0200, Ricardo Dalceno wrote:
> Hi Maria,
> 
> The kernel mesg. { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } means that
> you have a physical error on your disk and it is unrecoverable.

In addition to this, many of this type of error on IDE will cause issues
that the hardware does not handle well. I've often seen this class of
problem hang the IDE bus. which in turn may well lead to kernel
oopses.. 

On of the things i am unhappy with, is that this problem persists on
SATA, where a failing disk can "hang" or block the SATA controller,
resulting in 4 drives being inaccessible at the same time ;(

> So...
> First of all, backup your data.
> Then replace your hda disk. It's already crashed and will kill all your data
> (soon or later)
> Trash this disk.

Very valid suggestions

> 
> Good luck ;-)
> 
> Ricardo 'j0k3r' Dalceno

Another additional: the fact that the disk is complaining this way,
means that it is out of spare sectors. Modern disks have a number of
spare sectors, which they use to re-map faulty sectors. This error
implicitly means all spare sectors have been used. 

-- 
Cheers,


Rudy