Re: Hard Disk Error: dma_intr

From: Kieron Briggs (kieron_at_abuzz.com.au)
Date: 11/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:46:51 +1100

Nachiket Gokhale wrote:
> I get the following error on dmesg
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=374660345,
> high=22, low=5561593, sector=374660345
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 374660345
>
> Could anyone tell me how to interpret this error?

Whenever I've seen those kinds of error messages, it's meant that it's
time to buy a new hard drive.

(The drive hardware is telling the kernel that it encountered an error
reading the disk surface and that it could not recover from it. This
almost always indicates the drive is nearing failure.)

Kieron Briggs