Hello all.
This all started while trying to resume from a suspended Linux session on Jaunty. I received errors similar to these and I didn't get any further (note: these messages are taken from another computer booted up via a jaunty Live CD while the hard drive in question is attached via USB in an external hard drive box):
I then tried booting up from a Live CD which produced the same errors. Only detaching the hard drive from my system and booting up via the Live CD worked. However, I tried booting up with the Live CD again today and now it works. Right now I'm sitting on a laptop (not the computer which originally produced the error) with the hard drive attached via an external hard drive box with USB running from a Jaunty Live CD.Code:[ 133.804030] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 133.804037] ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:3f:00:60/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 out [ 133.804038] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [ 133.804041] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } [ 133.804048] ata3.00: hard resetting link [ 134.124010] ata3.01: hard resetting link [ 139.640010] ata3.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 143.840010] ata3.00: SRST failed (errno=-16) [ 143.850602] ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 143.850612] ata3.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 143.850617] ata3.00: link online but device misclassified, retrying [ 143.850622] ata3.00: hard resetting link [ 144.168018] ata3.01: hard resetting link [ 149.648013] ata3.00: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [ 153.904009] ata3.00: SRST failed (errno=-16)
When trying to mount the volumes on the - hopefully not broken, but seemingly not functional - hard drive, I get an error in nautilus suggesting to take a look at the dmesg output, which is:
When trying to run fsck on the whole drive or individually on each partition I receive the following messages (note: the drive is not displayed in /etc/mtab as being mounted):Code:[ 1466.476404] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK [ 1466.476417] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [ 1466.476428] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error [ 1466.476439] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 65 [ 1466.476475] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
GParted won't even show my hard drive as a selectable device. And this is the output of fdisk:Code:ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) fsck.ext2: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sdb Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb1 fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) fsck: fsck.swap: not found fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.swap for /dev/sdb1 ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb2 fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdb2 Could this be a zero-length partition? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb3 fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdb3 Could this be a zero-length partition? ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sdb4 fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdb4 Could this be a zero-length partition?
Here is what smartctl has to say:Code:ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb Unable to read /dev/sdb
I'm attaching the two versions of /var/log/syslog that I have. The first file is called "syslog-originalcomp-livecd-satacntrlr" and is the syslog file from booting up my own computer (the computer on which the error appeared originally) with a Live CD while the drive in question is attached to the computers SATA controller (which it had been all the time while it was functioning).Code:ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: WDC WD50 00KS-00MNB0 Version: Device type: disk Local Time is: Wed Jul 22 13:53:26 2009 UTC Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported SMART Health Status: OK Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging
The other file I'm attaching is the syslog file of the laptop I'm currently sitting at, to which the hard drive is attached via USB sitting in an external hard drive box. This file is called "syslog-laptop-livecd-usbdrive".
Both the files are contained in "syslogs.tar.gz".
I'm really hoping someone can help me. What can I do?
Thanks in advance!
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