[Novalug] Disk Errors?

[Jay Hart]

The status 0x51 error seems familiar.  If you can, search the novalug list
mail archives in Jan 07 timeframe.  I think I posted some emails with a
similar problem.

Jay

> I have a small SUSE linux box that I use as an "audioserver" - it ran
> flawlessly for over a year - but the other day while copying some files
> around I got errors. Starting on August 28th errors like the following
> appear in /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> Sep  1 00:47:19 audioserver kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
>
> # uname -a
> Linux audioserver 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> This is the 64 bit version of SUSE - not sure if that makes any difference.
>
> Anyone think that this disk has actual physical problems? Thought I might
> restart the computer and try to run a "fsck" - though I'm not sure exactly
> how to do that. Any advice most apprec.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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