Boot Problems with USB HD Drive

I bought a
*Samsung S1 1.8" 250 GB Drive*
for using as boodrive with my Macs.
*This drive will not be found during system boot*.
Yes, the disc ist formatted correct (GUID partitiontable)
Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 could be installed without any problems.
*Yes, I tried:*
- different USB2 ports
- tried different drives on the ports, works fine
- copied system to the drive
- installed a clean system on the drive
- tried "alt" during boot, drive not shown
- from the installed system the drive is offered as bootdrive in systemconfiguration setup
- disc works fine as external disc after booting the mac. Even on the Keyboards plug.
*Yes, I asked at samsung support*, seems they are not really interested.
They told me they the did not verify - ask at apple-suport - apples fault.
It was obviously a text module.
What is my option using this drive? Trash?

The reason ist found.
The Samsung S1 Mini 250 GB HDD USB2.0 1,8" can not be used as a boot-disc, because ist is not a single disc. Internal it is a raid-system of two discs. This will not be shown as one disc before finishing the system-start.
Samsung should have known this and I do not understand why the deny the problem.
The smaller discs of 120/160 GB are able to boot. This is positively confirmed with the 120GB disc.

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    [ 3013.575549] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
    [ 3013.576784] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
    [ 3013.578334] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
    [ 3013.578588] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
    [ 3013.592223] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592233] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592238] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592242] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592246] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592250] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592254] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592258] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592263] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592267] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592271] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3013.592302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592306] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592310] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592313] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592320] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592323] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592342] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592351] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592353] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592358] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592361] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 24 ba b8 78 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592376] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 616216696
    [ 3013.592414] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592417] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592421] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592423] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592428] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592431] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592449] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592458] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592460] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592465] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592467] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 b8 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592482] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951544
    [ 3013.592505] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592508] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592512] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592514] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592519] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592522] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592540] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592549] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592551] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592556] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592558] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 c0 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592572] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951552
    [ 3013.592583] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592586] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592589] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592592] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592597] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592599] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592618] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592626] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592628] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592632] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592635] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 29 7b 60 c8 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592649] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 695951560
    [ 3013.592665] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592668] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592671] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592673] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592678] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592684] Aborting journal on device dm-0-8.
    [ 3013.592701] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4476: Journal has aborted
    [ 3013.592687] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592723] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592729] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592730] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592733] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592735] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 18 d7 12 48 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592744] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 416748104
    [ 3013.592752] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 266057
    [ 3013.592760] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5902184 (offset 258048 size 4096 starting block 266057)
    [ 3013.592766] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592768] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592771] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592772] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592776] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592778] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592790] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592795] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592797] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592800] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592801] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 38 63 28 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592811] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423125800
    [ 3013.592817] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1063269
    [ 3013.592822] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5898577 (offset 970752 size 4096 starting block 1063269)
    [ 3013.592842] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592845] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592849] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592851] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592856] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592859] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592877] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592885] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592887] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592892] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592894] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 38 6f 28 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592908] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423128872
    [ 3013.592915] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1063653
    [ 3013.592922] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 5902187 (offset 1171456 size 4096 starting block 1063653)
    [ 3013.592931] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592934] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.592937] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592940] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.592945] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.592947] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592966] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.592974] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.592976] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.592980] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.592983] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 25 ae 98 28 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.592997] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 632199208
    [ 3013.593006] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 27197445
    [ 3013.593018] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): ext4_end_bio:250: I/O error writing to inode 6425165 (offset 151552 size 4096 starting block 27197445)
    [ 3013.593028] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593031] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.593034] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593037] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.593042] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.593045] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593063] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593071] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593073] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.593078] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.593085] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4476: Journal has aborted
    [ 3013.593089] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 25 3b 79 d8 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.593104] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 624654808
    [ 3013.593111] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 26254395
    [ 3013.593115] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
    [ 3013.593126] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593129] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.593132] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593135] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.593140] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.593142] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593161] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593169] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593171] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.593175] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.593178] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 18 b6 98 08 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.593192] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 414619656
    [ 3013.593198] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1
    [ 3013.593201] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
    [ 3013.593211] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593213] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3013.593217] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593219] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3013.593224] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3013.593227] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593245] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3013.593253] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3013.593256] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3013.593260] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3013.593262] cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 19 36 98 10 00 00 08 00
    [ 3013.593277] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 423008272
    [ 3013.593283] Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1048578
    [ 3013.593286] lost page write due to I/O error on dm-0
    [ 3013.593298] ata1: EH complete
    [ 3013.595707] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_dirty_inode:4603: Journal has aborted
    [ 3013.596581] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_journal_start_sb:370: Detected aborted journal
    [ 3013.596591] EXT4-fs (dm-0): Remounting filesystem read-only
    [ 3020.421558] journal commit I/O error
    [ 3020.421570] journal commit I/O error
    [ 3020.421574] journal commit I/O error
    [ 3020.421578] journal commit I/O error
    [ 3020.421581] journal commit I/O error
    [ 3147.052191] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xf SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
    [ 3147.052197] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
    [ 3147.052209] ata1.00: cmd 60/50:00:d0:48:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 40960 in
    [ 3147.052209] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    [ 3147.052212] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    [ 3147.052213] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
    [ 3147.052218] ata1.00: cmd 60/18:08:28:49:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 12288 in
    [ 3147.052218] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    [ 3147.052220] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    [ 3147.052221] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
    [ 3147.052226] ata1.00: cmd 60/88:10:48:49:99/00:00:1c:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 69632 in
    [ 3147.052226] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    [ 3147.052228] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    [ 3147.052229] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
    [ 3147.052234] ata1.00: cmd 60/20:18:00:a4:ba/00:00:24:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq 16384 in
    [ 3147.052234] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
    [ 3147.052236] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
    [ 3147.052239] ata1: hard resetting link
    [ 3147.378368] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
    [ 3148.066853] ata1.00: ACPI cmd ef/5a:00:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
    [ 3148.069139] ata1.00: ACPI cmd 00/00:00:00:00:00:a0 (NOP) rejected by device (Stat=0x51 Err=0x04)
    [ 3148.069393] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
    [ 3148.080059] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3148.080066] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3148.080071] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3148.080075] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
    [ 3148.080112] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080114] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3148.080117] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080118] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3148.080123] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3148.080125] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080136] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080140] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080142] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3148.080145] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3148.080146] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 48 d0 00 00 50 00
    [ 3148.080156] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807696
    [ 3148.080170] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080171] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3148.080173] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080175] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3148.080178] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3148.080180] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080190] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080195] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080196] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3148.080199] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3148.080200] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 49 28 00 00 18 00
    [ 3148.080209] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807784
    [ 3148.080216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080218] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3148.080220] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080221] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3148.080224] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3148.080225] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080236] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080241] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080242] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3148.080245] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3148.080246] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 1c 99 49 48 00 00 88 00
    [ 3148.080254] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 479807816
    [ 3148.080267] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080268] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
    [ 3148.080270] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080272] Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
    [ 3148.080274] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
    [ 3148.080276] 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080287] 00 00 00 00
    [ 3148.080291] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
    [ 3148.080293] ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
    [ 3148.080295] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
    [ 3148.080296] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 24 ba a4 00 00 00 20 00
    [ 3148.080305] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 616211456
    [ 3148.080315] ata1: EH complete
    I have experimented, and found that if I turn off NCQ on the kernel command line in my bootloader (libata.force=noncq), that it takes longer before the problem occurs.  Though, if I write enough to the second drive, it does still happen after a while, just greatly reduced its chances of happening.
    Is it possible that the old drive (sdb) is causing the problem?  I noticed that it is much noisier than I remember when the drive head moves around.
    Another curiosity while I was trying to duplicate the problem:
      - I start a large file copy from sda -> sdb
      - At the same time in another terminal, I do "find / -print"
      - When I hear the drive 2 head moving, it pauses the output of the "find" command.
    Every time I hear the head move, I see the find output pause.  Its almost like the drive seek on drive 2 causes the whole Sata controller to pause while the head moves.  Very odd!
    Anyone have any ideas?   I think the next thing I will try is borrow a drive from another machine, and do the big write to it to see if I get the same results.
    If it is of any help, here is some more info on the laptop:
    lspci:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
    00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
    00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5)
    00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5)
    00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1251 (rev a1)
    01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
    07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
    0d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 (rev 5e)
    13:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
    13:00.1 SD Host controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
    19:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04)
    cat /proc/interrupts:
    CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 CPU4 CPU5 CPU6 CPU7
    0: 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
    1: 958 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
    8: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
    9: 1675 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
    12: 12257 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
    16: 24769 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, mmc0, nvidia
    17: 142 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hda_intel
    19: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi rts_pstor
    23: 1937 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4
    41: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    42: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    43: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    44: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    45: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    46: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    47: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    48: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge xhci_hcd
    49: 19406 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi
    50: 36099 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
    51: 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge mei
    52: 386378 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel
    53: 56803 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
    NMI: 34 5 19 5 18 4 13 4 Non-maskable interrupts
    LOC: 77964 17705 161241 14302 187823 16150 56845 12750 Local timer interrupts
    SPU: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts
    PMI: 34 5 19 5 18 4 13 4 Performance monitoring interrupts
    IWI: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts
    RTR: 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 APIC ICR read retries
    RES: 13721 7023 304 110 175 110 213 123 Rescheduling interrupts
    CAL: 6941 7677 2774 7670 5804 7568 7655 7673 Function call interrupts
    TLB: 366 545 268 179 310 272 212 166 TLB shootdowns
    TRM: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
    THR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
    MCE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions
    MCP: 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 Machine check polls
    ERR: 0
    MIS: 0
    smartctl --all /dev/sda
    smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.5.3-1-ARCH] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
    === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    Device Model: ST9500423AS
    Serial Number: 5WS354LM
    LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 044bb741b
    Firmware Version: 0005DEM1
    User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
    Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
    Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
    ATA Version is: 8
    ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
    Local Time is: Thu Sep 13 15:26:14 2012 CDT
    SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
    SMART support is: Enabled
    === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    General SMART Values:
    Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
    was never started.
    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
    Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
    without error or no self-test has ever
    been run.
    Total time to complete Offline
    data collection: ( 0) seconds.
    Offline data collection
    capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
    Suspend Offline collection upon new
    command.
    No Offline surface scan supported.
    Self-test supported.
    Conveyance Self-test supported.
    Selective Self-test supported.
    SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
    power-saving mode.
    Supports SMART auto save timer.
    Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
    General Purpose Logging supported.
    Short self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
    Extended self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 105) minutes.
    Conveyance self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes.
    SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
    SCT Feature Control supported.
    SCT Data Table supported.
    SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
    Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
    ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 113 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 54715920
    3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 098 098 085 Pre-fail Always - 0
    4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 020 Old_age Always - 1114
    5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
    7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 069 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 10214892
    9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2030
    10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
    12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 559
    184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
    187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 8590065667
    189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 053 049 045 Old_age Always - 47 (Min/Max 47/51)
    191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17
    192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 871
    193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 039 039 000 Old_age Always - 122293
    194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 047 051 000 Old_age Always - 47 (0 17 0 0 0)
    195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 113 099 000 Old_age Always - 54715920
    197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
    199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
    240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 67229123085518
    241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1947733828
    242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2798982459
    254 Free_Fall_Sensor 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 899
    SMART Error Log Version: 1
    ATA Error Count: 8 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
    CR = Command Register [HEX]
    FR = Features Register [HEX]
    SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
    SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
    CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
    CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
    DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
    DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
    ER = Error register [HEX]
    ST = Status register [HEX]
    Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
    DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
    SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
    Error 8 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
    When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
    After command completion occurred, registers were:
    ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
    04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
    Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
    CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:21:04.124 NOP [Abort queued commands]
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    Error 7 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
    When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
    After command completion occurred, registers were:
    ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
    04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0
    Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
    CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:21:04.438 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:21:04.124 NOP [Abort queued commands]
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
    Error 6 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
    When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
    After command completion occurred, registers were:
    ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
    04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
    Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
    CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    Error 5 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
    When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
    After command completion occurred, registers were:
    ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
    04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0
    Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
    CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:59.118 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 05:20:58.805 NOP [Abort queued commands]
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    2f 00 01 10 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.724 READ LOG EXT
    Error 4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 2017 hours (84 days + 1 hours)
    When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
    After command completion occurred, registers were:
    ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
    04 71 09 a9 00 80 e0 Device Fault; Error: ABRT
    Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
    CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
    a1 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.761 IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
    ec 00 00 00 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.725 IDENTIFY DEVICE
    2f 00 01 10 00 00 a0 00 05:20:58.724 READ LOG EXT
    61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 05:20:58.724 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    61 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 05:20:58.724 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED
    SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
    Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
    # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 6 -
    # 2 Short offline Aborted by host 90% 1 -
    SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
    SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1 0 0 Not_testing
    2 0 0 Not_testing
    3 0 0 Not_testing
    4 0 0 Not_testing
    5 0 0 Not_testing
    Selective self-test flags (0x0):
    After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
    If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
    smartctl --all /dev/sdb
    smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [x86_64-linux-3.5.3-1-ARCH] (local build)
    Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
    === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
    Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint M6
    Device Model: SAMSUNG HM320JI
    Serial Number: S16LJF0QB02815
    LU WWN Device Id: 5 0f0000 001202815
    Firmware Version: 2SS00_01
    User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
    Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
    Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
    ATA Version is: 7
    ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
    Local Time is: Thu Sep 13 15:27:10 2012 CDT
    SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
    SMART support is: Enabled
    === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    General SMART Values:
    Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
    was never started.
    Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
    Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
    without error or no self-test has ever
    been run.
    Total time to complete Offline
    data collection: ( 110) seconds.
    Offline data collection
    capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
    Suspend Offline collection upon new
    command.
    Offline surface scan supported.
    Self-test supported.
    No Conveyance Self-test supported.
    Selective Self-test supported.
    SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
    power-saving mode.
    Supports SMART auto save timer.
    Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
    General Purpose Logging supported.
    Short self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
    Extended self-test routine
    recommended polling time: ( 110) minutes.
    SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
    SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
    SCT Feature Control supported.
    SCT Data Table supported.
    SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
    Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
    ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
    1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
    3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 252 252 025 Pre-fail Always - 2562
    4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 810
    5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
    7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
    8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 252 252 015 Old_age Offline - 0
    9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 4842
    10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0
    12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 440
    191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 154
    192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 71
    194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 073 073 000 Old_age Always - 55 (Min/Max 17/55)
    195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
    196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
    197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
    198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0
    199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
    200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
    201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
    223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 534
    225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 077 077 000 Old_age Always - 236803
    SMART Error Log Version: 1
    No Errors Logged
    SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
    No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
    Note: selective self-test log revision number (0) not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
    SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
    Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
    SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1 0 0 Not_testing
    2 0 0 Not_testing
    3 0 0 Not_testing
    4 0 0 Not_testing
    5 0 0 Not_testing
    Selective self-test flags (0x0):
    After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
    If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
    Last edited by johni (2012-09-16 00:46:54)

    It appears my drive one really is failing.  It was the first drive and not the second making the loud head seek sound.  I borrowed another drive from a friend, and copied my drive one to it.   No problems with the new drive in place.

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