Re: [tlug] Potentially Dying Hard Disk Questions

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:

    >> * Every once in a while the drive starts to make strange
    >> noises, like speaker clicks or a suction cup being pulled out
    >> of suction.  It is not the normal hard disk grinding noise I
    >> know from older disks.

    Botond> Strange noises are scary. You probably should get a spare
    Botond> disk before it dies.

This sounds to me like repeated bus reset (no sound)/seek to retry
(click) cycling.  I would guess you're going to lose the disk unless
it turns out to be a cabling issue.

    Botond> For DMA timeouts, there is a kernel block. They are not
    Botond> neccesarily as evil (can be caused by bad cabeling) and a
    Botond> bus reset usually helps.

It's the bus reset that requires the kernel to block, right?


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