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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What is this error log = hda: irq timeout: error=0x00 and how to solve? Post 302726475 by kristinu on Sunday 4th of November 2012 12:19:06 PM
Old 11-04-2012
Another possibility is a very old and slow disc or a dirty or slightly corroded connector. Since
it is easy, cheap, and quick to try to fix up a possible connector problem, that's what I'd try first.

---------- Post updated at 12:12 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:11 PM ----------

My first step would be to power down, and reseat the disc cables. I'd pull them back about 1/2
the way it would take to disengage the connectors, "rock" them back and forth a few times, then
reseat them fully back. I'd do the same with the power supply connectors to the discs. If you have
an older machine with a separate disc controller board, then I'd remove and reseat the controller
board to the motherboard connector, as well.

---------- Post updated at 12:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:12 PM ----------

Otherwise I'd suggest you do a full backup with verification.

If the problem persists, then you can just continue to use it, knowing that it may fail at any moment,
but that you won't lose anything you can't easily reconstruct.

One thing about hard drives I can guarantee you: eventually all of them fail.

---------- Post updated at 12:19 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:15 PM ----------

If you have a distro which can use SMART, and your disc is SMART capable, you can ask it.

Code:
smartctl -i /dev/hda

will tell you whether you have a SMART capable disc, and whether it be enabled. If your disc
is SMART capable, but it is not enabled, then enable it.

Code:
 smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda

If so, then

Code:
  smartctl --health /dev/hda

will give you a pass/fail diagnostic message.

Code:
 smartctl -a /dev/hda

will give you more information about what may be wrong, if anything.
Last edited by kristinu; 11-05-2012 at 06:45 AM..
 

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update-smart-drivedb

UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8)                                       SMART Monitoring Tools                                       UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8)

NAME

       update-smart-drivedb - update smartmontools drive database

SYNOPSIS

       update-smart-drivedb [OPTIONS] [DESTFILE]

DESCRIPTION

       [This man page is generated for the Linux version of smartmontools.  It does not contain info specific to other platforms.]

       update-smart-drivedb updates /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h or DESTFILE from smartmontools SVN repository.

       It  tries  to  download  first  from  the  current  branch and then from trunk. The tools used for downloading are either curl(1), wget(1),
       lynx(1), or svn(1).

       The old file is kept if the downloaded file is identical (ignoring the differences in Id string) otherwise it is moved to drivedb.h.old.

OPTIONS

       -s SMARTCTL
              Use the smartctl(8) executable at path SMARTCTL for drive database syntax check.  The form '-s -' disables the  syntax  check.   The
              default is /usr/sbin/smartctl.

       -t TOOL
              Use TOOL for download.  TOOL is one of: curl wget lynx svn.  The default is the first one found in PATH.

       -u LOCATION
              Use URL of LOCATION for download. LOCATION is one of:
              sf (Sourceforge code browser via HTTPS),
              svn (SVN repository via HTTPS),
              svni (SVN repository via HTTP),
              trac (Trac code browser via HTTPS).
              The default is svn.

       --cacert FILE
              Use CA certificates from FILE to verify the peer.

       --capath DIR
              Use CA certificate files from DIR to verify the peer.

       --insecure
              Don't abort download if certificate verification fails.  This option is also required if a HTTP URL is selected with '-u' option.

       --dryrun
              Print download commands only.

       -v     Verbose output.

EXAMPLES

       # update-smart-drivedb
       /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h updated from branches/RELEASE_6_6_DRIVEDB

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status is 0 if the database has been successfully updated. If an error occurs the exit status is 1.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/update-smart-drivedb
              full path of this script.

       /usr/sbin/smartctl
              used to check syntax of new drive database.

       /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h
              current drive database.

       /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h.old
              previous drive database.

       /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h.error
              new drive database if rejected due to syntax errors.

       /var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb/drivedb.h.lastcheck
              empty file created if downloaded file was identical.

AUTHORS

       Christian Franke.
       This manual page was originally written by Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>.

REPORTING BUGS

       To submit a bug report, create a ticket in smartmontools wiki:
       <http://www.smartmontools.org/>.
       Alternatively send the info to the smartmontools support mailing list:
       <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support>.

SEE ALSO

       smartctl(8), smartd(8).

PACKAGE VERSION

       smartmontools-6.6 2016-05-31 r4324
       $Id: update-smart-drivedb.8.in 4223 2016-02-26 20:18:40Z chrfranke $

smartmontools-6.6                                                   2016-05-31                                             UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8)
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