I think my hard drive is on the way out

The drive is making an ticking sound like its being accessed even when the hard drive light isnt on.

And I have heared that sound too many times before just before a drive shuffles off this mortal coil.

I have got these entries in the kernal log and the picture stutters and freezes when it was perfect before.


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Oct 9 20:15:45 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:15:45 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:15:45 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:15:45 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:15:49 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:15:49 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:15:49 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:15:49 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:17:07 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:17:07 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:17:07 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:17:07 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:18:53 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:18:53 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:18:53 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:18:53 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:22:46 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:22:46 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:22:46 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:22:47 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:27:05 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:27:05 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:27:05 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:27:05 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:40:24 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:40:24 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:40:24 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:40:24 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 20:40:41 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 20:40:42 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 20:40:42 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 20:40:42 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:06:51 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:06:52 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:06:52 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:06:52 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:14:22 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:14:22 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:14:22 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:14:23 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:14:42 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:14:42 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:14:42 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:14:42 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:40:44 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:40:45 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:40:45 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:40:45 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:51:11 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:51:11 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:51:11 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:51:12 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:53:38 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:53:38 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:53:38 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:53:39 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 9 21:58:31 mythtv kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 9 21:58:31 mythtv kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Oct 9 21:58:31 mythtv kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Oct 9 21:58:33 mythtv kernel: ide0: reset: success
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I have been putting off upradeing to a sata hard drive and wanted to know if i ghost the drive what files i would need to edit to get the sata drive to go after i had done it.

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Running:-
Intel 930 3GHz dual Core
Thermaltake Fanless CPU Cooler
Asus P5GS
Samsung 750G Sata HDD
8400 512m Video Card
2 * jetway DVB-t
1 * Haupage DVB-S2 Card
Samsung Sata 16x DVDRW
2048M Ram
1 * Netop Ion 330

Hi,

Make an image and copy everything you can while you can... those kinds of noise and errors are not a good thing in my book.

To switch you have to change lilo.conf and the fstab to match partitions. Works best to boot from cd then chroot into it so you can run lilo -v after the changes.

Mike

Also run the "SMART" utilities to check the drives health. The [color=red]smartcl[/color] man page should get you started:
[code]man smartctl[/code]

Hi All,

Dont think its the Hard Drive HaraH!!!!

Recently changed motherboards, now got an Asrock 775i945GZ/m/asr with a intel 930 CPU, the motherboard was free and i shouldn't complain but i still feel robbed. I have been importing and selling motherboards for twenty years now and have never liked this brand!.

Anyhow down from my high horse, this motherboard's bios has a compatibility mode on the IDE which should in a perfect world convert the sata channels into IDE. Ideal for myth because you can do an auto install! Now as I said before it should do that but it dosn't myth ignores this setting completely and the ide remains the ide and the sata remains the sata.

The only thing turning compatability mode on does is to mess up the ide channels, with it enabled the hard drive will only run in PIO mode, the picture goes to crap and you get the errors above.

So if you are running this combination make sure you run the ide in enhanced mode!.

As the board only has one IDE channel I am using a samsung sata DVD Writer with this setup.

See my other post

[url]http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12049[/url]



PS the ticking noise from the drive only started when I enabled SMART in the bios i think it may be the drive self testing when i get a chance I will turn it off and see if the noise goes away !!

Thanks all for your help !!

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Running:-
Intel 930 3GHz dual Core
Thermaltake Fanless CPU Cooler
Asus P5GS
Samsung 750G Sata HDD
8400 512m Video Card
2 * jetway DVB-t
1 * Haupage DVB-S2 Card
Samsung Sata 16x DVDRW
2048M Ram
1 * Netop Ion 330