[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu stalling with HDD light solid

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Thanks very much for your reply!

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:29:19 -0400, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
> Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
>> I had decided that the problem could be the hard drive itself
> That would be my guess.  What does dmesg|grep -i dma show?

$ dmesg|grep -i dma
[    0.000000]   DMA      0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
[    0.000000]   DMA32    0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 101 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   DMA zone: 3837 pages, LIFO batch:0
[    0.000000]   DMA32 zone: 7105 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   DMA32 zone: 512543 pages, LIFO batch:31
[    0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[    1.407342] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfa00 irq
14
[    1.407345] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfa08 irq
15
[    1.412451] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe02f000 port
0xfe02f100 irq 22
[    1.412455] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe02f000 port
0xfe02f180 irq 22
[    1.412459] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe02f000 port
0xfe02f200 irq 22
[    1.412463] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024 at 0xfe02f000 port
0xfe02f280 irq 22
[    2.120252] ata6.00: ATAPI: ATAPI   iHAS120   6, 7L0F, max UDMA/100
[    2.120938] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    2.130472] ata3.00: ATA-8: WDC WD10EADS-00P8B0, 01.00A01, max UDMA/133
[    2.132978] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[   14.022630] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]

> Sounds like the drive is going bad, you'll probably see a lot of dma 
> timeouts.  You may want to install smartmontools and [...]

I had already installed smartmontools and thought that the output looked
okay, but I'm not very good at reading it.

$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

>   smartctl --all /dev/sd(x)
sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda > smartctl_all.log
gave the attached file.

Thanks again for your help.

If nobody can come up with anything better, I'll try moving to a different
HDD this weekend -- it's just a bit of a pain with a 1TB drive (and only a
500GB spare).

Regards,

Aaron
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