On 11-03-13 04:42 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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. One would think so! :) But in my experience, the latter just about always follows the former within a surprisingly short amount of time (weeks). Cheers -- 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
