flakey zaurus harddrive

Hi all,

Does anyone besides me have issues with their zaurus's
harddrive?
Whenever I resume it from suspend it freezes for a moment
and the
kernel spits messages like these:
wd0g:  aborted command writing fsbn 5620768 of 5620768-0
(wd0 bn
7365616; cn 7307 tn 2 sn 34), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0a:  aborted command writing fsbn 480 of 480-0 (wd0 bn
543; cn 0 tn
8 sn 39), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0g:  aborted command writing fsbn 5620768 of 5620768-0
(wd0 bn
7365616; cn 7307 tn 2 sn 34), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0a:  aborted command writing fsbn 480 of 480-0 (wd0 bn
543; cn 0 tn
8 sn 39), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0a:  aborted command writing fsbn 480 of 480-0 (wd0 bn
543; cn 0 tn
8 sn 39), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0g:  aborted command writing fsbn 5620768 of 5620768-0
(wd0 bn
7365616; cn 7307 tn 2 sn 34), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0a:  aborted command writing fsbn 480 of 480-0 (wd0 bn
543; cn 0 tn
8 sn 39), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0a:  aborted command writing fsbn 480 of 480-0 (wd0 bn
543; cn 0 tn
8 sn 39), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
wd0g:  aborted command writing fsbn 3968384 of 3968384-0
(wd0 bn
5713232; cn 5667 tn 14 sn 14), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)
(every pair of lines is on occurrence)

and every once in a while it gets into an infinite loop of
"uncorrectable data error". Usually only if I'm
pushing it, like
untarring something while also trying to do something else:
wd0g:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 4960416 of
4960416-0 (wd0
bn 6705264; cn 6652 tn 0 sn 48), retrying
Oct 29 11:46:36 padumon last message repeated 3 times
wd0g:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 4960428 of
4960416-0 (wd0
bn 6705276; cn 6652 tn 0 sn 60), retrying
wd0g:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 4960428 of
4960416-0 (wd0
bn 6705276; cn 6652 tn 0 sn 60)

Is this a normal thing that no one's mentioned anywhere I
could find,
or is my drive breaking?

-Nick

On 2007/10/30 10:28, Nick Guenther wrote:
> Does anyone besides me have issues with their zaurus's
harddrive?
> Whenever I resume it from suspend it freezes for a
moment and the
> kernel spits messages like these:

that's normal,

> and every once in a while it gets into an infinite loop
of
> "uncorrectable data error". Usually only if
I'm pushing it, like
> untarring something while also trying to do something
else:

> wd0g:  uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 4960416 of
4960416-0 (wd0
> bn 6705264; cn 6652 tn 0 sn 48), retrying

i'm not to keen on that. unfortunately the microdrives
don't appear to have SMART to investigate further. you may
be able to remap it by dd'ing /dev/zero over wd0g and
copying your files back across (aiui bad block remapping
is done at write, not read), or then again maybe not.

if you want to find out what's involved when the drive
is dead, you may want to peruse this guide:

h
ttp://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19684

it's quite easy if you don't have the soldered copper band.
(my 3100 now sports twin CF slots after a little work with
a stanley knife).

Hi Nick,

Am 30.10.2007 um 15:28 schrieb Nick Guenther:

> Does anyone besides me have issues with their zaurus's
harddrive?

I also see these messages when the Z is coming back from
sleep (4-2- 
snap). Haven't seen this infinite loops yet, but I think I
didn't  
pushed my zaurus like you mentioned ;)

Cheers,

   Torsten