On Saturday 09 December 2006 12:10, Erick Perez wrote:
> Dec 8 04:05:31 mail kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6018827, sector=6018821
> seems that the controller is bad. so the motherboard is bad.
In an ATA drive, the 'controller' on the motherboard is more like a host
adapter like with SCSI (original ATA (AT Attachment) actually extended the
ISA bus, minus addressing, across to the drive, thus 'Integrated Drive
Electronics'). The 'controller' that is throwing the error is actually on
the drive; more than likely this string of errors is a drive failure. Try
another drive first, then check your cables (cable problems can do this too),
then check your motherboard.
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