do i have a duff HDD?

English Hardware
#1

Running Suse11.0 I purchased a new 1tb hdd today, excitedly came home, plugged it in and all seemed well.

The disk forms disk 0 in an LVM but whenever I try to write data to it the system says it’s going to take days to copy 350mb!!

I checked my /var/log/messages and see repeated entries:


May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5: EH complete
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8650001
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: cmd 35/00:00:37:8e:d7/00:04:49:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel:          res 51/04:e1:56:8e:d7/00:03:49:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: error: { ABRT }
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: both IDENTIFYs aborted, assuming NODEV
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
May  2 21:19:15 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
May  2 21:19:20 bgrsvr-x kernel: ata5: soft resetting link

The “device error” is kinda giving away there is a problem but it’s a brand new WD Caviar “Green” drive. Are there any utilities I could run to see if it’s a duff drive?

Thanks for any replies
Badger

#2

> see if it’s a duff drive?

what is “duff drive” means…

do you have the smart monitoring tools installed? if so try:


sudo smartctl -a /dev/[your device designation]

lots of info here: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/doc.html

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#3

It’s the brand of drive that Homer Simpson uses. lol!

#4

Although I DO have SMART installed, if I try to access the disk in any way shape or form (eg Konquerer or command line), the Konquerer window or shell session hangs. Same if I go into Partitioner, it just hangs and I have to kill the process to recover.

I will try the sudo smartctl -a /dev/… and re-post/edit when done :slight_smile:

#5

well the short test said “no errors”. going to swap the physical port it’s plugged into and see if that’s the cause …

#6

badger fruit wrote:
> well the short test said “no errors”. going to swap the physical port
> it’s plugged into and see if that’s the cause …

check and make SURE you have the jumper(s) set correctly…
is this a one or multi-drive system?

i’d also unplug and then reconnect both ends of the motherboard to
hard drive cable…and, if i had a spare i’d swap cables to check…

hmmmmmmmmmmm! what is that drive model number??

i ask because:

“Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and
Support. The WD10EACS is a desktop drive. WD desktop drives do not
work properly when used in a RAID array. I recommend you exchange your
WD10EACS drives for the RAID model, WD1000FYPS.”
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=22-136-151&SortField=1&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&nm_mc=AFC-Hotdealsclub&cm_mmc=AFC-Hotdealsclub--NA--NA-_-NA&Local=y

if you have not yet i recommend you google on:
linux lvm “Western Digital” [your drive’s EXACT model number]

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