Hardware :: Test Hard Drive / Ghost Kernel: [ 3495.452698] Ata3.00: Configured For UDMA/33 Error?
May 16, 2011
I notice a bunch of weird what appear to be hard drive related error messages on my Linux server:
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May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452698] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452706] ata3: EH complete
May 16 19:07:40 ghost kernel: [ 3497.380640] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
May 16 19:07:40 ghost kernel: [ 3497.380648] ata3: EH complete
May 16 19:07:44 ghost kernel: [ 3501.732973] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
please use /proc/5073/oom_score_adj instead.
I don't know if this could be an indication that my hard drive(s) are about to fail. Can someone tell me if there's a way to test the drives or understand what's causing this error?
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Oct 6, 2010
Is there a software utility out there for Ubuntu that can make a backup of the hard drive my Ubuntu 10.4 is installed on?
I have used Symantec Norton Ghost for Windows before. Is there a similar program for Ubuntu? I would also like to use the backup of the hard drive to reinstall on the same drive after a format.
Also, what would happen to the GRUB loader if I were to copy it back onto the hard drive?
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Apr 5, 2011
I'm trying to make a simple task as complicated as possible, so bear with me.
I'm going to force a friend onto Ubuntu soon, and the biggest requirement is photo management.
He wants his extensive photo library backed up, and backed up some more, and then when all feels safe, backed up even again.
Currently, all his photos reside on a 4 disk striped RAID array, based on his cousin's recommendation. The intent was a RAID 1+0, but they failed, and that needs to be fixed immediately.
So, instead of going with more mirrored hard drives in a RAID, which I know Ubuntu will do just fine, I'd like to simplify and just do manual backups of each hard drive.
So, I'm looking for a program that could possibly be set up to automatically back up a hard drive onto another hard drive on a weekly basis or something like that. Ultimately, doing a manual copy/paste of the data in the drive could work, but would be time consuming.
I'm scared of RAIDs lately because of a recent fiasco with a BIOSTAR motherboard and how it set the RAID mirror on a set of hard drives for a Windows load that rendered the harddrives basically useless for anything but a RAID mirror, with that motherboard and a Windows load, and I almost lost a lot of data because of it.
I'm also not sure how well Windows would recognize a RAID partition created in ext3, if he ever wanted to go back to Windows.
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Aug 13, 2010
Whenever I'm dealing with large numbers of computers that need to have identical windows installations put on them, I love using Symantec/Norton Ghost to image the NTFS partition (just making the .gho file the size of the disk I've used, instead of the 160/320GB full volume size), and then uploading it automatically to a windows share.I'd love to be able replicate this exact process with Ubuntu. I have one computer that's ready to go, and a few dozen more that I'd like to quickly get that same image on.
I've heard that there's a command called dd that can make disk images, but I'd really like some sort of boot disk that can allow me to make an image, save it, then run the boot disk on another computer to allow me to reconnect to the server and dump that image on that computer. Ghost 4 Linux doesn't have a network/server component, I think.even if such solutions cost money, I'd love to know if they exist or not.
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May 17, 2011
I notice a bunch of weird what appear to be hard drive related error messages on my Linux server:
May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452698] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
May 16 19:07:38 ghost kernel: [ 3495.452706] ata3: EH complete
May 16 19:07:40 ghost kernel: [ 3497.380640] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
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I don't know if this could be an indication that my hard drive(s) are about to fail. Can someone tell me if there's a way to test the drives or understand what's causing this error?
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Jul 28, 2009
I have a seagate SATA hard drive that was running a mythtv distro. It had 3 partitions, EXT3, swap, and XFS. I started having I/O errors on boot and saw error messages on both the EXT3 and the XFS partitions. I also heard some clunking sounds on the drive when it was reading, so I thought hell, the drive is dead.
I have since replaced the drive and everything is back up and running on the replacement drive. I thought hell, the seagate drive is toast, but I just want to verify it with some sort of tool. I have the hard drive in a Vantec NexStar external hard drive case (SATA->USB) and found there was a tool called badblocks. Ran badblocks on it, which ran for 24ish hours and found no bad blocks. I also didn't notice any clunking sounds while it was running.
I ran
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badblocks -n -v /dev/sdb
Is badblocks a proper test to run on external hard drives or was I just wasting my time? Is there any way that I can really test it without removing it and connecting it with SATA to the motherboard?
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I have built a CentOS machine just for playing around with and learning, however for the last few days I have had a couple of disk errors. So I want to replace it with another, and retain the data. I'm fairly new to Linux, but figured you could just image all partitions to another drive, so I tried this with Ghost 11. It imaged OK, but wouldn't boot - it went straight into Grub. What do I do here?
The original disk is just an 80gb IDE, the replacement disk is a 40gb IDE. I made sure it was in the same position on the IDE channel when attempting to boot from the new one (primary).I used Ghost to resize the partition down so that all partitions fitted onto the newer smaller disk.I didn't have much time to investigate further last night, so is it recoverable from the Grub prompt or have I gone about this the wrong way? Should I try using CloneZilla, or PING or should Ghost be able to cope?
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Nov 14, 2010
This is a general hardware question, but I trust the Linux community to be more clueful than those *other* OS users. I just picked up a new external hard drive. Back in the 8-bit era of the 1980's, there was a general consensus, that may have been an urban legend, that if a piece of hardware were faulty and was going to fail, then it would fail within the first $NUMBER hours of use, now $NUMBER varied from 100 to 500, depending who you talked to.
While the above *seems* to make sense, does it, indeed, make sense? Be that as it may, given that I do subject the new hard drive to big buckets of read/writes and it does not fail, does anyone have any opinion on whether this is any sort of a guarantee that the new hard drive is less likely to be faulty and that I can feel more secure of its ability to not melt into a pile of slag on my desk?
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My problem arises when I try to replace the 4GB with a 80Gb hard drive. When I disconnect the 4GB drive the system fails to boot up and complains with error 21.
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VFS: Cannot open root device "Volume00/root" or 00:00 append a correct "root= " boot option Right now the arguments to boot from the hard drive are:
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The problem is that after I do this, I get about 6 minutes of error messages as the kernel tries unsuccessfully to read my dead hard disk ("buffer I/O error on /dev/fd0" or something like that). I can post again if the specific error message would be useful. (But it takes so long to reboot that i'd rather not). I can tell it is trying to access my hard disk as I hear the disk occasionally spinning (it intermittently spins and does not spin). After many failures, the system successfully boots and runs from the USB drive.I tried removing the hard disk from the machine entirely, but this triggers an ASPI error and the kernel hangs.So ideally I would like to modify the kernel command line above to instruct it to ignore the hard disk. I read some kernel documentation but it proved a little bit too advanced for me.
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Traceback (most recent call first ):
File
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root@bt:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.56/ndiswrapper-1.56# make
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May 14, 2011
My problem is that my debian in hard drive 1 wont load, gives me a fatal error.
This is my computer:
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Hard drive 2 (250GB): debian (working fine, im using it now).
Details: I tried to install some webcam software thing and I think somehow i deleted some system files... ...So now when I start my computer, grub loads and i choose Debian on hard drive 1,i click it but when it goes through the list of things, it says
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And it just goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor.
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So now i have:
Hard drive 1 (1TB): broken debian about 120gb, windows7 666gb (approximately), free partition
Hard drive 2 (250GB): debian (working fine, im using it now).
Also, of interest: When I look at the folders of the messed up debian, there is nothing in the /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel folder. Empty.
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Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
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