[CentOS] SATA error

Dag Wieers
2006-03-27T14:24:58Z

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Fajar Priyanto wrote:

> Finally I temporarily migrate my mailserver to another box. It has been
> experiencing troubles with the SATA discs (Maxtor and Western Digital).
>
> I then upgraded the kernel to the latest one: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp and now smartd
> can run.
>
> When I do: smartcl -d ata -a /dev/sda, it says some errors but I
don''t know
> what does it mean.
>
> This is the result: http://pastebin.com/624613
> The problems it encoutered were: time out on device.
> Pls take a look at the pastebin for details.
>
> Is the drive still ok?
>
> Running smartcl on sdb gives no error.

Disable DMA to see if that results in errors as well. But it seems sda has
uncorrectable errors.

Kind regards,
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