On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 08:10:51PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >I dont know why there is "[ 2.098493] ata4.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED" in dmesg. > > > >I have 3 WD Green 1TB HDD, and I samsung 160GB HDD. > >1 SAMSUNG and 1 WD on the intel SATA, > >2 WD on the GIGABYTE Sata. > >I think the problem is only with the gigabye sata port. > > That's an uncorrectable read error the drive is reporting. Most > likely that hard drive is failing. Or maybe just a bad sector, in which case just writing it over would cause the drive to reallocate the failed region. I think this partial/transient failure mode is much more common than the whole drive going south. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
