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greylogic

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 14

Random Freeze with { UNC } error - hard disk problems?

Hi,

  My laptop randomly freezes for a couple of seconds frequently. I am running 2.6.30-ARCH in a dell inspiron. I did a check on the /var/log/errors.log and found the follwing block of errors occuring over and over again as soon as the freeze up happens.

Sep 26 17:16:04 revelation kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 33016839
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:01:cc:f7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: res 51/40:02:07:cc:f7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC }

i did some googling and found out this may be due to damaged areas in the hard disk or the hard disk is about to fail. (is it true?)

I followed some other thread, used system rescue cd and did a fsck -f on the root partition. I still keep getting these randon freezes. is there anything i can do to fix these?

your help is appreciated.

Last edited by greylogic (2009-09-27 03:00:43)