Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ian Marlier <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/22/05 3:08 PM, "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> The Tuesday 2005-11-22 at 18:06 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:
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>> Buffer I/O error on device sdb2, logical block xxxxxx
>> ata1: status 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> ata1: error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error}
>> scsi 0 : ERROR on channel 0, id1, lun0
>> current sdb: sense key Medium error
>> Additional sense: Unrecovered read error: auto reallocate failed
>> end request: I/O error, dev sdb sector xxxxxxxx
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> I think that disk has sectors with read errors, and the disk is trying to
> reallocate them. That is relatively normal, but it says that it failed, and
> that is indeed worrying. It could be that the space reserved for
> reallocation is spent. It would be interesting to read the smart log of
> that disk, but I think that sata support is not included/finished in
> smartctl.
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SATA disks are actually pretty well supported by smartctl; I use it to run
scheduled tests, and health monitoring, on about 35 SATA systems.

To the OP: try doing `smartctl -l /dev/sdb` -- that should give you an
extended printout of the errors that the disk has recorded.