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Re: [Xen-users] Major problems with 2.0.7 and SATA drives

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Major problems with 2.0.7 and SATA drives
From: Steven Ellis <mail_lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:59:57 +1200
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Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

this is usually a warning that only comes if the harddrive is really broken (and cannot read/write some blocks). I saw this message a lot in the last time and every time the diskdrive was really broken. But I never saw this in on a xen host. So maybe it's _only_ a xen problem and not a hw problem, but you should check.

To be sure you should check the harddrive with a special testing tool. All major companies that sell harddrive have their own tool. I guess WD has a similar tool anywhere on their webpage.
Have a try with ultimatebootcd (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/). It contains a bootable form of most of the various manufacturer's HD tools on one handy CD along with a bootable Linux for debugging. Amazingly useful tool.

Steve

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