[ale] DriveStatusError BadCRC

[James P. Kinney III]

While you go to get the new drive you can _try_ and backup the new
stuff. Once the errors start filling the screen and the system slows to
a crawl, it's usually too late.

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:06 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> This afternoon my desktop's logs started filling with
> 
> Sep  7 19:30:17 localhost kernel: [17183013.668000] hdb: dma_intr: 
> status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Sep  7 19:30:17 localhost kernel: [17183013.668000] hdb: dma_intr: 
> error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> Sep  7 19:30:17 localhost kernel: [17183013.668000] ide: failed opcode 
> was: unknown
> Sep  7 19:30:17 localhost kernel: [17183013.728000] ide0: reset: success
> 
> I didn't notice this until the system slowed to a crawl, then froze when 
> I tried to shutdown I restarted using SystemRescueCD and ran e2fsck 
> which found a lot of errors on /home-  blocks used multiple times 
> between multiple inodes, invalid counts, etc.
> 
> Here's the result of a short test with smartctl
> 
> SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      
> UPDATED  WHEN_ FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        0
>   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   125   113   021    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        4258
>   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   040    Old_age   
> Always       -        2895
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        0
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        0
>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   090   090   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        7333
>  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        0
>  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail  
> Always       -        0
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        691
> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   120   253   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        30
> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        0
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   253   000    Old_age   
> Always       -        388
> 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   200   155   051    Pre-fail  
> Offline      -        0
> 
> Should I
> a) run badblocks overnight and keep an eye on things in the future
> b) expect drive failure in the near-term and buy a replacement immediately
> 
> I do have current backups on hda (which holds a rarely-booted copy of 
> Windows) and older ones on another system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
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James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
Local Net Solutions,LLC        
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