On Monday 27 March 2006 09:24 pm, Dag Wieers wrote:
Disable DMA to see if that results in errors as well. But it seems sda has uncorrectable errors.
Hi Dag, After some researches on the net, I came upon some posting that SMART enabled disk will keep any error it encounters in it's log/memory. So, any in my case, it seems that the error was occuring in the past for quite some time comparing to the online hour of the disk.
Nevertheless, I reformated sda2 and also performed a double surface scan on it, but after half a day, it turned out to be ok. Very strange. Also currently it runs without any error at all. I plan to monitor it for a couple of days.
Looking at there strangeness, I suspect the errors could be caused by: 1. Electrical surge from an old UPS I used on the box 2. The temperatur of the server room is too cold? It's about 18 degree celcius on the day, and could reach 14 degree in the night I guess. Could it be too cold? Because currently I put the box on my desk with normal room temp around 28 degree.
I don't know. But from the research, some websites are suggesting to avoid maxtor and wd disks. http://forums.hardwareguys.com/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=3947