Hi all, on a new drive, installed about 3 months ago ... fsck shows:
Pass 5: Checking group summary information [ 117.650425] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xc0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 117.650678] ata5.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 117.650840] ata5.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 117.651523] ata5.00: cmd 60/80:30:68:08:40/00:00:be:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq 65536 in [ 117.651523] res 41/40:00:b0:08:40/00:00:be:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> [ 117.652872] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 117.653547] ata5.00: error: { UNC } [ 117.655604] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 117.655825] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 117.655991] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 117.656631] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 117.657288] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] [ 117.657966] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [ 117.658652] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 [ 117.659381] be 40 08 b0 [ 117.660065] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 117.660703] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed [ 117.661349] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: [ 117.661981] Read(10): 28 00 be 40 08 68 00 00 80 00 [ 117.662667] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3191867568 [ 117.663323] ata5: EH complete [ 129.095402] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3000000 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 129.095663] ata5.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 129.095826] ata5.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 129.096434] ata5.00: cmd 60/00:c0:e8:08:00/01:00:c2:00:00/40 tag 24 ncq 131072 in [ 129.096434] res 41/40:00:90:09:00/00:00:c2:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> [ 129.097727] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 129.098393] ata5.00: error: { UNC } [ 129.100528] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 129.100768] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 129.100935] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 129.101530] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 129.102128] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] [ 129.102728] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [ 129.103349] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 [ 129.103998] c2 00 09 90 [ 129.104645] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] [ 129.105280] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed [ 129.105911] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: [ 129.106567] Read(10): 28 00 c2 00 08 e8 00 01 00 00 [ 129.107271] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3254782352 [ 129.107954] ata5: EH complete
So, I am puzzled as to how quickly were the spare sectors consumed so that automatic sector forwarding ran out os spare sectors? So quickly on a brand new drive?? When someone buys a brand new drive, how many spare sectors is it guaranteed to have? ZERO? ONE?? How many?