On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Robert Spangler mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction? I am receiving these in my log file and do not know what they mean or what to look for;
Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: cmd 25/00:28:42:d3:37/00:00:13:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 20480 in Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: res 51/40:22:64:d3:37/40:00:13:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: Info fld=0x4000000 (nonstd), Invalid sda: sense = 72 11 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 322425666 Mar 8 04:03:56 bms kernel: ata3: EH complete
Looks like /dev/sda has one or more bad sectors. Run smartctl with the long self test option or check the file system with badblocks. Details on how to run each program are located here:
http://prefetch.net/articles/diskdrives.smart.html
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/08/27/checking-devices-for-bad-secto...
Hope this helps, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net