Re: Is my SATA/400GB drive dying?

[Erik Mouw]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:18:47PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Still get the errors:
> 
> [ 2311.980127] ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 
> 0xb/00/00
> [ 2311.980134] ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [ 2311.980138] ata3: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

FWIW, this could be related to smartctl trying to monitor the disk.
Try this:

  smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX

If that complains about SMART being disabled, enable it with:

  smartctl -d ata -e /dev/sdX


Erik

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